Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] Some improvements

[Benno Schulenberg]

> > When I start nano and type ^W, I don't want to see the string that I last 
> > searched for on the prompt bar.  If I want that search string again (to
> > edit it), it is one <Up> away.  If I don't want to edit it, I can just use
> > M-W. So I don't see the advantage of putting up the last search string also
> > for the first ^W.  (If it were up to me, it would be removed from all 
> > invocations of ^W.)
>
> This is merely for consistency. If ^W is pressed the last search string is not
> reloaded, but when M-W is pressed it is, which is consistent behavior.

You mean "inconsistent", right?  I don't see the inconsistency: when I press
^W, I apparently want to specify something that I want to search for, so what
good does it do to put between brackets the string that I last searched for
the previous time that I used nano?  If I press M-W, I apparently want to
search for what I last searched for -- even when I have just started nano,
because then I apparently remember what I last searched for, otherwise I
wouldn't press M-W.  So M-W should be extra "clever", but not ^W.

> If you would like the opposite behavior - do not fill the last string in in
> such a way that pressing M-W will open the prompt bar because of absence of a 
> search string, it is acceptable too.

When I press M-W, I expect nano to search.  I do not ever want M-W to offer
me a prompt.  When I want a prompt, I press ^W.

Benno