Re: [Nano-devel] patch for navigation in view mode

[Carlos Costa]

Nice job, thanks! =)

I like the idea and I think it is useful. My vote is to introduce the
patch at nano... lets wait for Maintainer's decision.

Regards,

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Carlos Costa [crncosta]
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Jason DeVita <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've made a patch to allow vi/less style navigation while in view-mode, and
> also to toggle between view and edit modes.  Basically, Mod-1 toggles
> view-mode.  And when in view-mode, you can use h-j-k-l to move the cursor,
> 'b' and <space> to page up/down, '/' to search, n/N to find next/previous
> match, g/G to goto start/end of the document, and 'q' to quit.  I find it
> much faster to use these when I'm mostly navigating, and not doing much
> editing.
>
> I'm not much of an applications programmer (I normally write
> numerical/scientific stuff), so I don't know if what I did is wrong or bad.
>  But it seems to work for me.  The patch is on the svn tip (as of today).