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Re: [Nano-devel] should Verbatim Input do what it says or what it does?


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: [Nano-devel] should Verbatim Input do what it says or what it does?
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:37:03 -0400

On 26 Jun 2016 16:09, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Currently, when using Verbatim Input (M-V) for inserting keystrokes
> undecoded into the text buffer, what happens is that nano will take
> *all* keystrokes in the input buffer and insert them verbatim into
> the text.  Normally, there will be just one keystroke in the buffer
> and all will be fine.  But if your machine is thrashing, or the
> connection with a remote machine is choking, several keystrokes
> might accumulate, which will result in all of them being entered
> verbatim into the text (if they follow an M-V).
> 
> Big deal, you will say.  The thing is: in the help text (and in
> the manual) it says: "M-V  Insert the next keystroke verbatim".
> 
> So the question is: should the code be fixed, or the manual?

the code please
-mike

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