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Re: [Nano-devel] Re: sample Python regexes, revisited
From: |
John M. Gabriele |
Subject: |
Re: [Nano-devel] Re: sample Python regexes, revisited |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Apr 2006 21:51:16 -0700 (PDT) |
--- David Lawrence Ramsey <address@hidden> wrote:
> John M. Gabriele wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >> In the meantime, I'll try to help you get Alt-Space working.
> >
> > Very good.
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > Does anyone else have the Alt-Space problem?
>
> I think I know what the problem is. See below.
>
> <snip>
>
> >>> - nano doesn't have an undo.
> >> The rewrite will have this.
> >
> > Very good.
>
> Be warned, though: the rewrite will take a while to get all of nano
> 1.4's features, much less stabilize on its own. See these threads in
> the mailing list archives for more info:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2005-12/msg00003.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2006-01/msg00014.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2006-02/msg00007.html
>
> <snip>
Thanks for the links.
> >> but some terminals can't tell the difference between an arrow key and
> >> Ctrl-[arrow key].
> >
> > Gah!
>
> "Gah" indeed. And that's not even the worst of it. See below.
>
> <snip>
>
>
> >> to the "Selecting/Cutting/Copying/Pasting" section, you might want to
> >> change the "search/replace" key entry to "Ctrl-\ (or Alt-r)" in the
> >> "Searching" section,
> >
> > As an aside, I'm not too fond of using *both* the Ctrl key and the
> > Alt key for various commands. [snip]
>
> The problem is in the other limitation of text mode, namely, there are
> only 33 control characters [snip]
Thanks for the analysis David. I see what you mean. If I want
a full-function text-mode editor, I'd better get used to that
Alt key. :)
[back to the Alt-Space back-by-word problem...]
>
> >> and if/when we can work out your Alt-Space problem,
> >> you might want to mention the solution to it there.
> >
> > Sure. Although I'm not using nano for anything at the moment, I've
> > re-subscribed to this list for now, so if you come up with a solution,
> > just post about it and I'll update my page.
>
> From what I've been able to find out (I don't use icewm), it appears
> that icewm overrides that particular key to show the window menu.
> According to
>
> http://users.tkk.fi/~tkarvine/linux/doc/icewm/preferences
>
> , the icewm preferences file should have a line like
>
> KeyWinMenu="Alt+Space"
>
> in it, which will need to be changed if you want to use Alt-Space for
> something else.
Nice find!
I looked in my .icewm directory, and there was no preferences file
present. So, I copied the one from /etc/X11/icewm to my ~/.icewm
directory, and uncommented the KeyWinMenu line, changing it like so:
KeyWinMenu="Alt+Shift+Space"
Logged out of X and logged back in, and ... (after Ctrl-left_click'ing
in my xterm window to select either "Alt Sends Escape" or
"Meta Sends Escape" (both work))... Alt-Space in nano now works!
Thanks. :) I updated my little nano page.
http://www.simisen.com/jmg/nano.html
> [snip]
> As for finding the previous search, if you're pressing Ctrl-W again, why
> don't you just press Alt-B to toggle backwards searching before you
> press Enter again?
Hm. I've got nano v1.3.10 here, and Alt-B doesn't toggle backwards
searching. Instead, it seems to toggle whether or not nano automatically
makes backup~ files~. I don't see anything about reversing the search
direction in the online help. I *do* see, in the .nanorc file, that
there's a "set backwards" option though...
---John
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- [Nano-devel] Re: sample Python regexes, revisited, David Lawrence Ramsey, 2006/04/01
- [Nano-devel] Re: sample Python regexes, revisited, John M. Gabriele, 2006/04/01
- Re: [Nano-devel] Re: sample Python regexes, revisited, David Lawrence Ramsey, 2006/04/03
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- Re: [Nano-devel] Re: sample Python regexes, revisited, David Lawrence Ramsey, 2006/04/14
- Re: [Nano-devel] Re: sample Python regexes, revisited, John M. Gabriele, 2006/04/14
- Re: [Nano-devel] Re: sample Python regexes, revisited, David Lawrence Ramsey, 2006/04/14