Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: give suggestions for alternative key bindings in the sample nanorc

[David Ramsey]

Benno Schulenberg:
> I think that single-keystroke default bind was a mistake.  In the
> first year or two it has caused me to lose quite a bit of edits.
>
> Such a destructive action should have required two keystrokes -- ^W^D,
> for example, where ^D is chosen because the neighboring keys, ^W^S and
> ^W^F do nothing by default.

Originally, it *did* use two keystrokes: ^W^X, and Meta-T was an
alternate key for the same thing (commit 295d172). but the former was
apparently removed at your suggestion (commit f7b8783).

At the time, I figured it was no worse than hitting ^J when I meant to
hit ^K.  Usually, I'd be on a roll and hit (what I thought was) ^K and
then the arrow keys to move to my next target, so unjustify no longer
applied.  And I'd use justify enough that I wasn't willing to just
disable it.

At least with undo working, it's much less of an issue (aside from
justify at the moment), and rebindable keys also help.