Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] support for alt-arrow keys

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hello Urja,

Op 13-08-2017 om 12:44 schreef Urja Rannikko:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > Urja, would you also be content if nano just hard-bound Alt+Left to prevbuf
> > and Alt+Right to nextbuf?  As in the attached patch?
>
> Yes personally I'm okay with this too,

Okay.  Pushed to master.  The bindings will appear in 2.8.7.

> Anyways having them do something by default sounds good, this way more people
> will (likely even "accidentally" as in by trying out keys) learn of this new
> feature.

Yes, if their terminal (emulator) doesn't catch them and use them for
something else.

> > Then, in a follow-up patch I would propose to hard-bind Alt+Up to 
> > findprevious and Alt+Down to findnext.  I think it's nicer to have these
> > keys do something useful by default instead of leaving it to the user to
> > bind them first.
>
> Okay with those bindings too,

Pushed too.

> PS. This is an aside, but I'm very happy to be able to unbind all keys from
> justify and spell, so I'm a little bit afraid to force new keybindings on
> people, but OTOH these seem less harmful than those if pressed accidentally,
> and also a bit less likely to be pressed totally accidentally.

:)

I used to unbind ^Y, because too often I would hit ^Y when I meant ^U,
and then I would stare at the screen and wonder what happened.

So yes, being able to unbind is good.

Benno