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GNU Nano Gets New Stable Release

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

jones_supa writes: GNU Nano 2.4.0 has been released as the first stable update to this UNIX command line text editor in a number of years. The release codenamed "Lizf" brings a wide variety of changes: full undo system, Vim-compatible file locking, linter support, formatter support, flexible syntax highlighting, and random bugfixes.

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  1. Re:More help needed by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Informative

    I would simply like if it explained how to cut and paste multiple lines of text at the same time.

    Use Alt+a to set a mark for the start of highlighting, then move your cursor to the desired end of the highlighted region. Now if you copy or cut, it'll operate on the highlighted region.

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    10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10