[Nano-devel] several bugs and knots in the file browser

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi,

1) Bug.  After typing, in this order, ^R ^T ^W ^G ^X, the file
being edited gets displayed, instead of the list of files.
(I seem to remember having reported this bug before, and that
it got fixed for the 2.0.* series.)

2) Bug.  After ^R ^T ^W ^G, the help text shows three lines of
available command keys that show zero key combos.  Wouldn't it
be better to not list these lines?

3) Bug.  After ^R ^T ^W, typing M-/ or M-\ do not work, although
the help lines say they should.

4) After ^R ^T, the help lines contain this part:

     ^W Where Is         ^V Next Page
     ^Y Prev Page        F16 WhereIs Next

Almost no keyboard has an F16 key, so it would be much more
useful to list M-W instead.  Also, normally related keys are
listed in the same helpline column, so the following would
be more consistent, and is as it was in nano-2.0.9:

     ^W Where Is         ^Y Prev Page
     M-W WhereIs Next    ^V Next Page

5) It would be useful if one could exit the file browser with
^C too, as is the case in nano-2.0.9, and not only with ^X.


Further, when started with LC_ALL=C, nano does not correctly display
accented capital letters, but has no problem with the lower case ones.
For example:  ÁÁÁÁ  ÉÉÉÉ  ÍÍÍÍ  áááá  éééé  íííí.
Each accented capital here gets displayed as three characters: "?^?".
With a normal UTF8 locale, all accented letters are displayed fine.


Running nano-2.2.5 on Ubuntu Karmic.

 GNU nano version 2.2.5 (compiled 11:52:02, Aug  6 2010)
 (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 Email: address@hidden    Web: http://www.nano-editor.org/
 Compiled options: --enable-color --enable-extra --enable-multibuffer 
--enable-nanorc --enable-utf8

(Those copyright years do not include 2010.  :)  It would be much
neater, though, to just list that year and forget about the whole
sequence.  As I understand the FSF rules, that is permissible.)

Regards,

Benno

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