Re: [Nano-devel] pico who?

[Chris Allegretta]

On 4/10/14, frank <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2014/04/09 16:28, Chris Allegretta wrote:
>
>  >> Currently nano does nothing special when it is invoked with the
>  >> name of 'pico'.
>
>  > That's by design (now anyway). It's part of the GNU Coding Standards
>
> One billion and counting of computer users worldwide have never heard
> of pico. Do the GNU coding standards also dictate that applications
> have to cater for trogloditx?
>
> It is time for a nano version that _by default_ uses Windows-inspired
> keybindings, things like ctrl-o (open a file) and ctrl-s (save a
> file). The pico crap should be optional since it seems trogloditx
> never die.

If you want gedit/notepad, you know where to find them.  Regardless of
whether it's GNU or not, nano is a console application and by default
uses Pico's keybindings.

That said, I'm going to look past your insulting and inflammatory
phrasing and say there's a case to be made for implementing a more
modern selection/cut/paste mechanism, maybe using shift+arrow keys for
selection and ctrl-x,c,v to manipulate.  Such functionality would have
to be behind a flag, and a substantial amount of forethought about
changing the default behavior would be needed.  Everything else you've
discussed can be handled today using key binding overrides.