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Re: Help Line Text
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Zach DeCook |
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Re: Help Line Text |
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Sat, 22 Feb 2020 00:15:54 -0500 |
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On February 21, 2020 12:55:29 PM EST, "address@hidden" <address@hidden> wrote:
>By the way, what exactly do I need to type into the .nanorc file to
>rebind something to the escape key?
I think escape might not be bindable.
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 3:39 pm, Benno Schulenberg<address@hidden>
wrote:
>>In which order would you prefer to see the shortcuts in the help lines?
>>And for whom? How would this be helpful?
On February 21, 2020 12:55:29 PM EST, "address@hidden" <address@hidden> wrote:
>As for reordering the shortcuts and perhaps displaying different ones
>in different orders in the help lines, I thought it would be nice to
>only display the shortcuts I rarely use there.
I think it would be best to display the shortcuts that are used the most often.
Nano's reputation is one of user-friendliness, after all.
[Micro](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro),
a contemporary of nano, shows the following shortcuts:
```
^Q Quit, ^S Save, ^O Open, ^G Help, ^E Command Bar, ^K Cut Line
^F Find, ^Z Undo, ^Y Redo, ^A Select All, ^D Duplicate Line, ^T New Tab
```
With the exception of 'new tab', 'command bar', 'select all', and 'duplicate
line', this set would be good to move up in nano. (Note that ^S here is save,
and not 'writeout' -- which is more commonly called 'save as'). I also
recommend showing copy and paste.
(Regarding nano's current top commands, I've never once intentionally used the
shortcut for replace, or justify. I use nano as my primary text editor for
writing code.)
Which leads to the next part: how can we remember how to trigger 'spellcheck'
or 'linter' or the other commands that we'll never memorize the shortcut for?
Currently, I press `^G /`, then start typing the command's name, and after
seeing it, Q then trigger the shortcut.
Most OS's offer a shortcut to search thru menu items. Github's popular Atom
editor provides the 'command pallette' (shift control p) to search through
commands.
Micro has the 'command bar' (annoyingly mapped to ^E, IMO) which offers tab
completion, so I can run the linter with `^E li <TAB> <ENTER>`.
-Zach
- Help Line Text, address@hidden, 2020/02/20
- Re: Help Line Text, Benno Schulenberg, 2020/02/21
- Re: Help Line Text, address@hidden, 2020/02/21
- Re: Help Line Text, Benno Schulenberg, 2020/02/23
- Re: Help Line Text, Zach DeCook, 2020/02/23
- Re: Help Line Text, Benno Schulenberg, 2020/02/24
- Re: Help Line Text, address@hidden, 2020/02/28
- Re: Help Line Text, Benno Schulenberg, 2020/02/23