Re: Fw: nano key bindings

Op 13-01-2023 om 09:02 schreef Seb:
> What's really important for me is that ^W remains a valid key stroke for 
> searching (even if not advertised on the menu lines), including the sequences
>  ^W^Y and ^W^V which I use everyday too, to navigate but also to cut large 
> chunks.

Don't worry.  Even if ^F would become bound by default to Whereis, the
older bindings ^W, ^Q, M-W, M-Q, ^W^V, and ^W^Y will continue to exist.

> I'm pretty sure, though, that changing ^F will get you (the devel team) a ton
>  of criticism from old timers,

Possibly.  But I'm not so very worried about that.  Nano-5.0 changed the
meaning of the old ^T binding, from Spell-Check to Execute, and I've not
heard anyone complain about that.  Changing ^F to Whereis will probably
affect a few more people, but the ones affected will probably be savvy
enough, as Chris says, to quickly fix this with:

     bind ^F right main

> who may say that the ^F binding was inspired by the holy shell, or just 
> "logical" ("F"orward),

Besides, it is what joe and Emacs and uEmacs and Pico do.

> (And Benno, on Firefox you can still activate in the settings one of 
> everybody's favorite features of Mozilla : "search as you type", without 
> pressing ^F first;

I know.  I've used it for a long time, but it interfered with something
-- I forget what -- so I don't use it any longer.  But even if I would
use it, I would sometimes type ^W for Search out of habit: I sometimes
type ^W in 'less' too, or / in nano.  :|

> you can even click links by pressing Enter.)
Yes, I do that regularly, mostly after a Search.

Benno