Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] possible new feature: allow binding a key to a string

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 02-02-18 om 01:34 schreef Brand Huntsman:
> One problem with these key bind macros is that they are a little hard to read,
> need M-V to write, and can't be copy/pasted to another computer.

True, they are a little hard to read.

> They could use a sigil to write out readable function names.
>
> bind M-1 "^[r    ^M^[v  ^M" main bind M-1 "${replace} 
> ${enter}${verbatim_input}${tab}${enter}" main
>
> Quite a bit easier to read and copy/paste, and no unrebindable prompt is 
> needed. But you need to know the function names to do this, which anyone 
> binding keys would already need to know.

When they want to rebind functions to other keys, yes.  But when they just
want to "prerecord a macro" (that is: to make a key produce a string), then
they only need to know which keys to press.

Benno