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GNU Nano 8 comes with modern key bindings
2018 November 11 GNU nano 3.2 "Het kromme hout" changes the default binding for the linter to M-B so that the spell checker (^T) can always be used, and changes (when linting) the text in the title bar and the color of the status bar to make linting mode more obvious. It also adds a bindable 'zap' function for deleting a line or marked region without changing the cutbuffer, adds --zap to bind the <Del> and <Backspace> keys to the zap function when something is marked, and hard-binds <Alt+Del> to 'zap'.
For users who dislike numbers, there are fourteen new color names: rosy, beet, plum, sea, sky, slate, teal, sage, brown, ocher, sand, tawny, brick, and crimson. Option 'set stateflags' makes nano show the state of auto-indenting, the mark, hard-wrapping, macro recording, and soft-wrapping in the title bar. Nano no longer by default tries using libmagic to determine the type of a file (when neither filename nor first line gave a clue), because in most cases it is a waste of time.
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