Re: Fw: nano key bindings

[Peter Passchier]

I find the nano keybinding defaults unworkable, so I have a heavily modified 
.nanorc that I can quickly download to new machines (version mismatch is the 
only minor issue in that case).

It is impossible to find keybindings that will please everyone, so I don't 
think that is the solution. (But if you could change Search to default to 
Ctrl-F then that would help many people I'm sure..!)

What would really help is a build-in way to change a keybinding from within the 
session. Of course you could edit .nanorc and do it that way, but a more 
beginners-friendly way to edit keybindings would be used by most people. It 
would require a proper list of functions to be available within the interface 
where current keybindings are shown and new ones can be assigned.

Perhaps a start (proof of concept) could be a separate binary to do this, and 
once it works well it could be integrated, because having a single binary is 
really good..!

Peter


On 1/12/23 02:27, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> This email from Donnie (albeit somewhat rudely expressed) does hit on something 
> I've been feeling for awhile - I have indeed also been doing more and more 
> editing on virtual machines in a tab of my browser, and I suspect many other 
> folks have been dealing with being bitten by closing their window as nano's 
> default primary search binding continues to be ^W.
>
> We do also have F6 as a default to accomplish this, but ironically that also is 
> difficult (but not by any teams impossible) to hit on a modern laptop keyboard 
> as it usually ends up being Function+a key which is in a slightly different 
> place on each kb. I would ideally suggest ^F , but it has served as 'move 
> forward' for ages now, though I truly wonder how many folks have ever hit that 
> key combination).
>
> How would folks feel about using Meta+F as the primary search keystroke (i.e. 
> the one advertised on the help menu) with ^W and F6 as equivalents? It does 
> line up nicely with M-W as re-search. Any feedback appreciated.
>
> ------- Forwarded Message -------
> From: Donnie Ferris <DonnyBahama@gmx.com>
> Date: On Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 at 2:05 PM
> Subject: nano key bindings
> To: bensberg@telfort.nl <bensberg@telfort.nl>, chrisa@asty.org <chrisa@asty.org>
>
> > Hello,
> > The Ctrl+W key binding is utterly egregious. Every time I (forget and) try to 
> > search for text, it closes my browser tab and I lose EVERYTHING. I would like 
> > to change the key bindings so that they are more standard - Ctrl+C to copy, 
> > Ctrl+X to cut, Ctrl+V to paste, *Ctrl+F *to /find/ text, etc.
> > I'm not a C/C++ programmer, but this has happened one too many times  One of these days, the blood 
> > pressure spike is going to kill me. I'd like to try changing the key bindings (and the text at the 
> > bottom that lists the most common ones) and compile from the modified source. I'm hoping I can make 
> > sense enough of the code to pull this off. Can you please point me in the right direction? nano.c 
> > seemed like the logical place to start but when I (opened it in xed and) searched for 
> > "binding" then (when nothing was found) "justify", I didn't find anything that 
> > seemed to be what I'm looking for.
> > Thanks for your time and consideration.
> > ~ Donnie