Re: nano key bindings

Hi Donnie,

- Which version of nano are you using? The version you are using will
control whether custom keybindings work.
- Ensure there is a copy of this file in your home directory: .nanorc
(note the '.' before the 'nanorc' part of the filename). This is the
personalization file for nano.
- Edit .nanorc and add these bindings if not already present.

For commonly used keyboard shortcuts, study the next section. "^F" means
pressing CTRL and 'F" at the same time.

Placing an '#" in front of the line makes it inactive like so:
#bind ^F whereis all

These are active key bindings you want to have for commonly used

bind ^F whereis all
bind ^B findnext all
bind ^S savefile main
bind ^Z undo main
bind ^X cut all
bind ^C copy main
bind ^V paste all



On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 11:13 AM Chris Allegretta <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Donnie,
>
> This would probably best be send to nano-help@ (and please send replies
> there) but it sounds like you want something like the following:
>
> bind ^F whereis all
> Or another suitable key binding. the nanorc man page will probably help
> you out here.
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 at 2:05 PM, Donnie Ferris <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>