Index: src/rcfile.c
===================================================================
--- src/rcfile.c	(revision 5252)
+++ src/rcfile.c	(working copy)
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
     {"brackets", 0},
 #endif
     {"const", CONST_UPDATE},
+    {"constantshow", CONST_UPDATE},
 #ifndef DISABLE_WRAPJUSTIFY
     {"fill", 0},
 #endif
Index: src/nano.c
===================================================================
--- src/nano.c	(revision 5252)
+++ src/nano.c	(working copy)
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@
     print_opt(_("-Y <str>"), _("--syntax=<str>"),
 	N_("Syntax definition to use for coloring"));
 #endif
-    print_opt("-c", "--const", N_("Constantly show cursor position"));
+    print_opt("-c", "--constantshow", N_("Constantly show cursor position"));
     print_opt("-d", "--rebinddelete",
 	N_("Fix Backspace/Delete confusion problem"));
     print_opt("-h", "--help", N_("Show this help text"));
@@ -2123,7 +2123,7 @@
 #ifndef DISABLE_COLOR
 	{"syntax", 1, NULL, 'Y'},
 #endif
-	{"const", 0, NULL, 'c'},
+	{"constantshow", 0, NULL, 'c'},
 	{"rebinddelete", 0, NULL, 'd'},
 	{"nofollow", 0, NULL, 'l'},
 #ifndef DISABLE_MOUSE
Index: doc/nanorc.sample.in
===================================================================
--- doc/nanorc.sample.in	(revision 5252)
+++ doc/nanorc.sample.in	(working copy)
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 ## Constantly display the cursor position in the statusbar.  Note that
 ## this overrides "quickblank".
-# set const
+# set constantshow
 
 ## Use cut-to-end-of-line by default.
 # set cut
Index: doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
===================================================================
--- doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc	(revision 5252)
+++ doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc	(working copy)
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 icolor brightred "^[[:space:]]*((un)?(bind|set)|include|syntax|header|magic|linter|i?color|extendsyntax).*$"
 
 # Keywords
-icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(allow_insecure_backup|autoindent|backup|backwards|boldtext|casesensitive|const|cut|fill|historylog|locking|morespace|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nofollow|nohelp|nonewlines|nowrap|poslog|preserve|quickblank|quiet|rebinddelete|rebindkeypad|regexp|smarthome|smooth|softwrap|suspend|tabsize|tabstospaces|tempfile|view|wordbounds)\>"
+icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(allow_insecure_backup|autoindent|backup|backwards|boldtext|casesensitive|const(antshow)?|cut|fill|historylog|locking|morespace|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nofollow|nohelp|nonewlines|nowrap|poslog|preserve|quickblank|quiet|rebinddelete|rebindkeypad|regexp|smarthome|smooth|softwrap|suspend|tabsize|tabstospaces|tempfile|view|wordbounds)\>"
 icolor yellow "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+(functioncolor|keycolor|statuscolor|titlecolor)[[:space:]]+(bright)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan)?(,(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan))?\>"
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+(backupdir|brackets|functioncolor|keycolor|matchbrackets|operatingdir|punct|quotestr|speller|statuscolor|titlecolor|whitespace)[[:space:]]+"
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*bind[[:space:]]+((\^|M-)([[:alpha:]]|space|[]]|[0-9_=+{}|;:'\",./<>\?-])|F([1-9]|1[0-6])|Ins|Del)[[:space:]]+[[:alpha:]]+[[:space:]]+[[:alpha:]]+[[:space:]]*$"
Index: doc/man/nanorc.5
===================================================================
--- doc/man/nanorc.5	(revision 5252)
+++ doc/man/nanorc.5	(working copy)
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 .B set casesensitive
 Do case-sensitive searches by default.
 .TP
-.B set const
+.B set constantshow
 Constantly display the cursor position in the status bar.
 .TP
 .B set cut
Index: doc/man/nano.1
===================================================================
--- doc/man/nano.1	(revision 5252)
+++ doc/man/nano.1	(working copy)
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
 Specify the name of the syntax highlighting to use from among the ones
 defined in the \fInanorc\fP files.
 .TP
-.BR \-c ", " \-\-const
+.BR \-c ", " \-\-constantshow
 Constantly show the cursor position.  Note that this overrides \fB\-U\fP.
 .TP
 .BR \-d ", " \-\-rebinddelete
Index: doc/texinfo/nano.texi
===================================================================
--- doc/texinfo/nano.texi	(revision 5252)
+++ doc/texinfo/nano.texi	(working copy)
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
 See @xref{Syntax Highlighting}, for more info.
 
 @item -c
address@hidden --const
address@hidden --constantshow
 Constantly display the cursor position and line number on the statusbar.
 Note that this overrides @option{-U}.
 
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@
 @item set casesensitive
 Do case-sensitive searches by default.
 
address@hidden set const
address@hidden set constantshow
 Constantly display the cursor position in the status bar.
 
 @item set cut