Re: Fw: nano key bindings

^/ for search is a reasonable choice and consistent with Linux user
experience.

Victor





On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:06 PM Chris Allegretta <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmm, I had forgotten about the new formatter function.
>
> It sounds like we have to reassign something in order to serve as many
> users as possible in the modern era of 'nano-in-browser'. The logical
> candidates to me seem to be:
>
> - ^F (move forward one space) - but we may have some users who don't have
> arrow keys
> - ^/ (goto line number) - we already have ^_ and M-G for this, but some
> may be used to it
> - M-F (invoke formatter) - new(er) but is not the most logical keystroke
> anyway for search IMO
>
> Since the most inconsistent key of the above is '^/', as ^\ is for replace
> and / is synonymous for searching, I'm actually going to change my
> suggestion to that instead.  As always interested in hearing what other
> folks think about this.
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 at 2:27 PM, Chris Allegretta <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> > Hello folks,
> >
> >
> > This email from Donnie (albeit somewhat rudely expressed) does hit on
> something I've been feeling for awhile - I have indeed also been doing more
> and more editing on virtual machines in a tab of my browser, and I suspect
> many other folks have been dealing with being bitten by closing their
> window as nano's default primary search binding continues to be ^W.
> >
> > We do also have F6 as a default to accomplish this, but ironically that
> also is difficult (but not by any teams impossible) to hit on a modern
> laptop keyboard as it usually ends up being Function+a key which is in a
> slightly different place on each kb. I would ideally suggest ^F , but it
> has served as 'move forward' for ages now, though I truly wonder how many
> folks have ever hit that key combination).
> >
> > How would folks feel about using Meta+F as the primary search keystroke
> (i.e. the one advertised on the help menu) with ^W and F6 as equivalents?
> It does line up nicely with M-W as re-search. Any feedback appreciated.
> >
> > ------- Forwarded Message -------
> > From: Donnie Ferris <[email protected]>
> > Date: On Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 at 2:05 PM
> > Subject: nano key bindings
> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]>, [email protected] <
> [email protected]>
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > The Ctrl+W key binding is utterly egregious. Every time I (forget and)
> try to search for text, it closes my browser tab and I lose EVERYTHING. I
> would like to change the key bindings so that they are more standard -
> Ctrl+C to copy, Ctrl+X to cut, Ctrl+V to paste, Ctrl+F to find text, etc.
> > >
> > > I'm not a C/C++ programmer, but this has happened one too many times
> One of these days, the blood pressure spike is going to kill me. I'd like
> to try changing the key bindings (and the text at the bottom that lists the
> most common ones) and compile from the modified source. I'm hoping I can
> make sense enough of the code to pull this off. Can you please point me in
> the right direction? nano.c seemed like the logical place to start but when
> I (opened it in xed and) searched for "binding" then (when nothing was
> found) "justify", I didn't find anything that seemed to be what I'm looking
> for.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time and consideration.
> > >
> > > ~ Donnie
>
>