[Nano-devel] statusbar blanking

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi,

When specifying -U, the status bar blanks quickly just fine in the 
File Browser, but not in the Editor.  For example when a search 
wraps, this message disappears in the File Browser upon the next 
keystroke, but in the Editor it stays there seemingly forever.  
Only when some cursor movement is made (like with the arrow keys, 
Backspace, ^A, ^E and such) does the status bar get blanked.  Also 
without -U, the status bar never gets blanked when just typing 
text.

Shouldn't there be a check_statusblank() in parse_kbinput()?  And 
then remove it from everywhere else?  Attached patch seems to work 
fine here, but surely I'm overlooking something.


Something else: when in the File Browser, pressing plain W equals 
^W, plain G equals ^_, and plain E equals ^X.  Is this intentional?

When dealing with files one normally works with globbing, not 
with regular expressions.  When in the File Browser trying to 
search for *rc, I found the error message '[ Bad regex "*rc": 
Invalid preceding regular expression ]' at first quite confusing.
This is just a remark; it would really go too far to add a comment 
about this in the "Browser Search Command Help Text".

Benno

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