Re: [Nano-devel] [Request] allow deleting a marked region without affecting the cutbuffer

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 09-10-18 om 04:44 schreef Liu Hao:
> 在 2018-10-09 00:02, Benno Schulenberg 写道:
>> I can see why you expect <Bsp> and <Del> to work that way, because that
>> is what they do in some other editors, like Gedit and Geany, and these
>> behave that way because... the whole desktop works that way.
> 
> This is partially correct. A more important reason is that all Windows editors
> work that way,

That is not an important reason.  Nano is not meant for Windows.

>> But <Bsp> and <Del> affecting regions is a behavior
>> change, and would most likely have to be parked behind an option.
> 
> The current behavior AFAICT is useless. If a person wants to delete the 
> character
> preceding or following the caret she/he should turn the mark off before
> proceeding - this is true almost everywhere else, either on Windows or
> non-Windows.

It may be true in all other editors, it is not true in Pico.  And
nano follows what Pico does.  If nano wants to stray from that, it
needs an option.

> If a selection region is active it is deleted (or overwritten).

Typing a character when a region is marked will never overwrite the
region, not in nano, because it shouldn't be that way.  If the user
wants the marked region gone, they should type <Del> first (when
<Del> has been made to annihilate a marked region).

Benno

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