Re: custom braced names for filename and syntax

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:21:17 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Op 19-11-2025 om 10:56 schreef Luca Coraggio:
> I attach a modified version of your patch to make {filename} return the full
> file path (adding a single line to the paste_filename function in prompt.c).

In theory, get_full_path() can return NULL.  When it does, then your version
will crash nano when {filename} is used.

[While trying to get get_full_path() to actually return NULL, I found an error
in its logic.  Fixed in git, commit 3b983dd8.  So thank you for that.  :) ]

> This would result in cumbersome checks for the user in external scripts
> (e.g. let the script check if the {filename} contains a full path or
> otherwise print the working directory and attach it to the filename).

Checking whether a filename is absolute or relative is hardly cumbersome:
just check whether it starts with a slash or not.  If not, prepend $(pwd)
-- it doesn't matter if the relative name begins with ./ or ../, Linux
will handle that just fine.


> What do you think about it?
I have no plans to include the patch in nano.  So you can customize nano
any way that you like.


Benno

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