Re: Fw: nano key bindings

For anyone morbidly curious, there were 9 votes on the Twitter poll 
regarding the change:

- 44% voted for ^F
- 33% voted for no change
- 22% voted for ^/

On 2023-01-13 16:45, [email protected] wrote:
> Hey Benno, I think our emails crossed at the same time. If you did see 
> this mail, please disregard.
> Just checking since I did switch my email system while this thread has 
> been ongoing.
> Have a great weekend.
> 
> On 2023-01-13 09:54, Chris Allegretta wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 01:01:58PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>>> 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?
>> 
>> It looks like there are a few 'essential' keys that that Firefox does 
>> not
>> to pass through to the session: namely ^W, ^N and ^T. All other keys I 
>> tested
>> seem to pass through to the client.
>> 
>>> 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?
>> 
>> Generally no this is generally for accessing a remote machine. For 
>> connecting
>> to a virtualized host this might more frequently be the case.
>> 
>>> > 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?
>> 
>> Yes, I do all the time.
>> 
>>> And is their anyone who can give me access to a 
>>> terminal-in-the-browser so
>>> that I can experience how this works?
>> 
>> Under a debian install with proper virtualization support, you could
>> 'apt install cockpit cockpit-machines' and then log into VM manager 
>> interface
>> on localhost:9090 to set up and connect to a sample VM.