Re: Fw: nano key bindings

I use nano in various Linux distributions and have compiled it and use in 2
Windows operating system computers using Windows Sublayer for Linux
installed. One is using Debian and the other Ubuntu. Because these use
cases are not in a browser window, ^W does not result in the window being
closed as that keystroke is not intercepted by a browser.

Victor Khong





On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 4:03 AM Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Op 12-01-2023 om 22:23 schreef Chris Allegretta:
> > the default key that we advertise for search is, for more and more users
> > nowadays, unfortunately  destructive to their editing session.
>
> When I try to close my Xfce terminal emulator while nano is still running,
> I get a dialog box asking me "*Close window?* A process is still running."
> Why does the terminal-in-the-browser not have the same feature?
>
> And as Sébastien asks: why does the browser grab only ^W?  Why does it not
> grab ^F to search in the terminal page, ^A to select all text in that page,
> M-E to open the Edit menu of the browser?  And so on.  How does this work?
> Do all other Ctrl+letter and Alt+letter keystrokes of nano work just fine?
> Or are there still a few more that are grabbed by the browser?
>
> Also, when running a terminal-in-the-browser, is nano running locally on
> the same machine as the browser?  Or is a terminal-in-the-browser always
> used to access a remote machine?
>
> In the case of CS101 students, if they are using nano on a remote machine
> through a browser on their local machine, then I would suggest to the
> admins
> of that remote machine to put these two lines in its /etc/nanorc:
>
>      bind ^F whereis main
>      bind ^B wherewas main
>
> > To me, nano's intended audience was always the 1st year University
> student
> > sitting down at the terminal in their CS101 class, who is actually
> looking at
> > and being grateful for the 'bottombars', with the help description for
> the
> > mainly used keys plainly written and accessible. I believe more and more
> > nowadays those folks will likely be using some web terminal [...]
>
> Can anyone on this list confirm that they use nano through a browser window
> sometimes?
>
> And is their anyone who can give me access to a terminal-in-the-browser so
> that I can experience how this works?
>
> Benno
>