Improvements made in version 2.6:
- Trailing whitespace can be snipped from justified paragraphs.
- Better feedback when a file is unwritable or a directory inaccessible.
- Bindable functions for deleting a word to the left and to the right.
- A bindable function for saving the current file without prompting for its name.
- Commenting/uncommenting lines with a single keystroke (M-3).
- Resizing the window does not exit from help viewer nor file browser.
- On some terminals Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right jump to previous and next word.
- A steadier movement of the highlight in the file browser.
Improvements made in version 2.4:
- The ability to give different colors to title bar, status bar and help lines.
- Linter support, for automatically putting the cursor on syntax errors.
- Formatter support, for normalizing the layout of a text instead of the spelling.
- The undo/redo system has reached a usable state and is enabled by default.
- No longer finds "ghosts" of certain UTF-8 characters.
- Makes the mouse usable again for clicking on shortcuts.
- Fixes several syntax coloring issues.
- Adds more syntax highlighting examples (Go, guile, javascript, json, PO files, texinfo, ...).
Improvements made in version 2.2:
- Customizable key bindings.
- Abortable searching (^C after ^W).
- Partial undo/redo support [EXPERIMENTAL].
- Pager support (i.e. reading from stdin).
- Warnings for unwritable files and for external modification since opening.
- "Soft" line wrapping (i.e. display of complete lines).
- More syntax highlighting examples (Fortran, objC, OCaml, Makefiles).
- Faster syntax highlighting for complicated regexes.
Improvements made in version 2.0:
- UTF-8 support.
- Improved color syntax highlighting.
- Copy text without cutting it.
- Verbatim input mode.
- Repeat last seach (Meta-W).
- Spell check/replace selected text only.
- Indent marked text.
- Move to beginning/end of paragraph.
- Search within the file browser.
- Auto-conversion of mixed file format.
Improvements made in version 1.2:
- More Pico compatible by default.
- Smooth scrolling (-S flag).
- Bracket matching (Meta-]).
- .nanorc support.
- Color syntax highlighting.
- Search and replace history editing.
- Customizable quoting string (-Q flag).
- Append/prepend from write file menu.
- Write selected text to file (^O after ^^).
- Multiple file buffers (-F flag).
- Support for Mac and DOS file format.
- Saved search/replace history (-H flag).
- Backup files (-B flag).
- Insert output of command (^X after ^R).
Version 1.0 had the following features:
- Autoconf support.
- Truly free license (GNU GPL).
- Goto-line command without a flag.
- Case-sensitive search function.
- Interactive search and replace.
- About half the size of the Pico binary.
- Slang and ncurses support.
- Autoindent abillity.
- Displayed tab width option.
- Regular-expression search and replace.
- Toggles for command-line flags via Meta keys.
- Tab completion when reading/writing files.