GNU nano 8.0 released

Version 8.0 of the terminal text editor GNU nano has beenreleased. This update includes several changes to keybindings to bemore newcomer-friendly, such as remapping Ctrl-F to forward-search andadding an option for modern bindings:

Command-line option --modernbindings (-/) makes ^Q quit, ^X cut, ^C copy, ^V paste, ^Z undo, ^Y redo, ^O open a file, ^W write a file, ^R replace, ^G find again, ^D find again backwards, ^A set the mark, ^T jump to a line, ^P show the position, and ^E execute.

The release also provides access to 14 levels of gray scale in xterm (upfrom four), as well as many bug fixes.