Re: [Nano-devel] [Request] allow deleting a marked region without affecting the cutbuffer

[Liu Hao]

在 2018-10-09 00:02, Benno Schulenberg 写道:
> I can see why you expect <Bsp> and <Del> to work that way, because that
> is what they do in some other editors, like Gedit and Geany, and these
> behave that way because... the whole desktop works that way.

This is partially correct. A more important reason is that all Windows 
editors work that way, at least since Windows 95, and Gedit etc. just 
follows this behavior without any changes.

> But... do you ever consciously use <Bsp> or <Del> to delete a marked
> region in another editor because you know you have something on the
> clipboard that you want to use later?

Yes I do not want to destroy the cut buffer unless I really want to move 
text into it. <Delete> is also a bit more convenient than <Ctrl+X> or 
<Shift-Delete>.

> And when we would make this, what would be the next request?  That nano
> should use the desktop's clipboard instead of its own private cutbuffer?
> And then that typing any character when a region is marked should delete
> and overwrite the entire region?

I made no such request. But if you really would like to hear about it: 
If nano could preserve the cut buffer after it exits (and reload it the 
next time it starts, like the search and replace patterns), it would be 
good. Again, I didn't make such a request.

> The ^S and Shift+arrows could be added without changing any of the other
> behaviors of nano.  But <Bsp> and <Del> affecting regions is a behavior
> change, and would most likely have to be parked behind an option.

The current behavior AFAICT is useless. If a person wants to delete the 
character preceding or following the caret she/he should turn the mark 
off before proceeding - this is true almost everywhere else, either on 
Windows or non-Windows. If a selection region is active it is deleted 
(or overwritten).


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