Re: [Info-nano] [ANNOUNCE] nano-5.5 is released

[Seb]

Hi Benno,


> 2021.01.14 - GNU nano 5.5  "Rebecca"

Well done!

> ? Option 'set minibar' makes nano suppress the title bar and instead
>  show a bar with basic editing information at the bottom: file name
>  (plus an asterisk when the buffer is modified), the cursor position
>  (line,column), the character under the cursor (U+xxxx), the flags
>  that --stateflags normally shows, plus the percentage of the buffer
>  that is above the cursor.

I like the idea of having three more lines of the file displayed on the 
screen.
I'm not sure about some details though:

* Does this line really have to be at the bottom of the file? When I type, 
I use mostly the bottom half of the screen, thus the "minibar" line is 
more distracting to me at the bottom of the screen than at the top.

* The counter of chars on this line changes every time I type a letter
(obviously), thus it "flashes" and it distracts me from what I'm typing. 
The information "line count,char count" is already available with ^C, does 
it really need to be available at all times?

* Idem for the Unicode code, it flashes and seems rarely useful.


To go even further along the "minibar" idea: would it be possible to let 
this line disappear completely with a keyboard toggle, perhaps ^C?


> ? Option 'set markmatch' highlights the result of a successful search
>  by putting the mark at the end of the match, making the match more
>  visible.  It also suppresses the cursor until the next keystroke.
>  (If you dislike the hiding of the cursor, use 'set showcursor'.)

I love it already.


Kind regards,
Sébastien.