Re: Fw: nano key bindings

[Victor Khong - Horsefly Realty]

^/ for search is a reasonable choice and consistent with Linux user experience.

Victor

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:06 PM Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org> wrote:

Hmm, I had forgotten about the new formatter function.

It sounds like we have to reassign something in order to serve as many users as possible in the modern era of 'nano-in-browser'. The logical candidates to me seem to be:

- ^F (move forward one space) - but we may have some users who don't have arrow keys
- ^/ (goto line number) - we already have ^_ and M-G for this, but some may be used to it
- M-F (invoke formatter) - new(er) but is not the most logical keystroke anyway for search IMO

Since the most inconsistent key of the above is '^/', as ^\ is for replace and / is synonymous for searching, I'm actually going to change my suggestion to that instead.  As always interested in hearing what other folks think about this.

------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 at 2:27 PM, Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org> wrote:


> Hello folks,
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> This email from Donnie (albeit somewhat rudely expressed) does hit on something I've been feeling for awhile - I have indeed also been doing more and more editing on virtual machines in a tab of my browser, and I suspect many other folks have been dealing with being bitten by closing their window as nano's default primary search binding continues to be ^W.
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> We do also have F6 as a default to accomplish this, but ironically that also is difficult (but not by any teams impossible) to hit on a modern laptop keyboard as it usually ends up being Function+a key which is in a slightly different place on each kb. I would ideally suggest ^F , but it has served as 'move forward' for ages now, though I truly wonder how many folks have ever hit that key combination).
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> How would folks feel about using Meta+F as the primary search keystroke (i.e. the one advertised on the help menu) with ^W and F6 as equivalents? It does line up nicely with M-W as re-search. Any feedback appreciated.
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> ------- Forwarded Message -------
> From: Donnie Ferris <DonnyBahama@gmx.com>
> Date: On Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 at 2:05 PM
> Subject: nano key bindings
> To: bensberg@telfort.nl <bensberg@telfort.nl>, chrisa@asty.org <chrisa@asty.org>
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > The Ctrl+W key binding is utterly egregious. Every time I (forget and) try to search for text, it closes my browser tab and I lose EVERYTHING. I would like to change the key bindings so that they are more standard - Ctrl+C to copy, Ctrl+X to cut, Ctrl+V to paste, Ctrl+F to find text, etc.
> >
> > I'm not a C/C++ programmer, but this has happened one too many times  One of these days, the blood pressure spike is going to kill me. I'd like to try changing the key bindings (and the text at the bottom that lists the most common ones) and compile from the modified source. I'm hoping I can make sense enough of the code to pull this off. Can you please point me in the right direction? nano.c seemed like the logical place to start but when I (opened it in xed and) searched for "binding" then (when nothing was found) "justify", I didn't find anything that seemed to be what I'm looking for.
> >
> > Thanks for your time and consideration.
> >
> > ~ Donnie