Re: [Nano-devel] warning the user that some keys cannot be rebound

[Rishabh Dave]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Benno Schulenberg
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016, at 16:16, Rishabh Dave wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Benno Schulenberg
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > In the beginning I said: "discuss first".  You didn't bother to discuss...
>>
>> I *couldn't* discuss because I wasn't able to judge my competence and
>> difficulty of possible rebinding.
>
> Of course you can discuss.  Whenever you think of working on a
> bug, the first thing you do is post to the bug, something like:
> "Should this be fixed?  If so, how difficult will it be?  Can
> you give me hints on where to make changes?"

Thanks. I will do it next time.

>> All I mean is just warn me if you are not sure. I spent all extra time
>> I had in month and now I have nothing substantial despite of all
>> effort.
>
> Don't spend time on nano (nor on any other program) if you can't
> afford to waste it.

Why would anyone want to waste anytime, especially around a project?
Or even think of affording such disdain-able thing.



So, we want to warn our users; in similar fashion to when there is
something un-interpretable in ~/.nanorc, like "bin ^A help main"
instead of "bind ^A help main"? Code for that would go in src/rcfile.c
somewhere in if--else if-else statement where we print ""Command
\"%s\" not understood" or (better?) near when we print "Sorry,
keystroke \"%s\" may not be rebound". Probably, it could be better if
we display on statusbar rather than terminal.