Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] Erase next word if ctrl is held when delete is pressed

[Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Op 16-07-18 om 23:32 schreef Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita:
>> Subject: [PATCH]      Erase next word if ctrl is held when pressing delete.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <address@hidden>
>
> The subject line should start with "input: ", and the phrase should
> not start with a capital and not end with a period.
>
> After a blank line, the commit message could say that this now binds
> by default the until-now unbound function 'cutwordright'.  And that
> the other function, 'cutwordleft', cannot be bound to Ctrl+Backspace
> as that keystroke often generates ^H, which does a plain backspace.
>
>> -int controlleft, controlright, controlup, controldown, controlhome, 
>> controlend;
>> +int controlleft, controlright, controlup, controldown;
>
> There was no need to change this line.  So don't.
>
>> +     add_to_sclist(MMAIN, "^Del", CONTROL_DEL, do_cut_next_word, 0);
>
> This fails to compile with --enable-tiny.
>

I'll send a version with those points fixed.

> For the rest, the patch looks good.
>
> For me, it works on an Xfce-terminal, on an xterm, and on urxvt.  But
> it works on none of them when using option -K: "Unknown sequence".
>
> Also, it does not work at all on a Linux console.  You need to add an
> 'if' around line 610 in src/winio.c
>

Works fine on a linux console here (Ubuntu 16.04).