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Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: should nano stay alive on anorexic terminals?
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Jordi Mallach |
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Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: should nano stay alive on anorexic terminals? |
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Fri, 08 Jul 2016 22:22:09 +0200 |
El dv 08 de 07 de 2016 a les 14:01 +0200, en/na Benno Schulenberg va
escriure:
> I'd never noticed, because for some reason Gnome-Terminal cannot be
> made narrower than 19 columns, but when a virtual terminal becomes
> narrower than four columns, nano crashes -- it dies deliberately,
> possibly leaving an annoying .save and .swp fille lying around.
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> Other console editors don't die when the terminal gets very narrow:
> Vim and Emacs and joe all stay alive. Vim and joe continue
> outputting
> to the screen always; Emacs stops doing that when the terminal is
> narrower than six columns.
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> What should nano do?
What emacs does seems sensible, but possibly for less columns. Anything
but dying like that, I guess? Of course if the terminal has no
indication of a file being edited with nano, that might not be so great
either.
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