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Re: [Nano-devel] Help comments, man page, wish list and other things
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David Lawrence Ramsey |
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Re: [Nano-devel] Help comments, man page, wish list and other things |
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Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:01:47 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) |
Ken Tyler wrote:
<snip>
> Now the wish list, one thing that's always been a bit annoying is
> copying text to the cut buffer. It requires cut and then paste to
> restore when logically a single key should copy the text to the cut
> buffer without cutting it. I know keys are in short supply and that's
> what pico does but I've never liked it.
I've just added this to current CVS. The only keystroke left that
seemed intuitive at all was Meta-^ (due to Ctrl-^'s association with
marking and hence cut and paste), so it uses that. It needs testing,
though.
> A couple of other things for the wish list, columnar cut and paste,
It might be useful under some circumstances, but I have no idea how to
implement it at the moment. The last person to bring this feature up
was Adam Rogoyski almost 5 years ago, and no one could figure it out
then either. Maybe after the rewrite that should become 1.6.
> multiple levels of undo/redo.
Available in the rewrite that should become 1.6. Search the nano-devel
archives for "About the nano rewrite".
<snip>
> One last thing about "^O" is that it will create an empty file if
> saving an empty buffer whereas "^X" does that only if the file
> previously existed, if the file didn't exist it won't be created. Is
> this the intended behaviour of "^O" ?
Yes, both because Pico does it too and because a file that hasn't been
modified (which includes a non-existent file) shouldn't be marked as
such.