There are several cases (searching, replacing, spell checking, ...)
where exiting from the help viewer does NOT return the user to the
editing of the buffer.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57295.
Bug existed since version 4.3, commit 5817e83e.
Hard-binding the ^H control code prevents the user from rebinding
the keystroke.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56995.
Bug existed since version 4.0, commit 72a49dbb.
The extra things that close_buffer() did are only needed and useful
when manually closing a buffer, so move them there. The other three
calls of close_buffer() only need to get rid of the current buffer
(making the preceding buffer the new current one) and nothing else.
When a help-text buffer is closed while exiting from the help viewer,
the rest of the exit code takes care that the preceding buffer gets
displayed properly. And when a help-text buffer is closed because a
SIGWINCH occurred, doing anything for the preceding buffer is a waste
of time because a new help-text buffer will be opened and displayed
instantly.
This avoids the substantial overhead of first writing and then reading a
temporary file, and in the bargain removes two possible failure points.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56371.
Closing a buffer automatically switches to the next buffer. But for
the help-text buffer this is not the desired behavior, so each closing
needs to be followed by a switch to the preceding buffer.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56411.
Also, compute the required space for the keystrokes more tightly:
most of those characters are plain ASCII, so that means 17 bytes
for 17 cells, and at most one of those characters is a three-byte
arrow, which means 2 bytes extra. Adding the two newlines at the
end, the needed room besides the description is 21 bytes.
The cursor can function as a reading aid for people with poor vision.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54654.
Requested-by: Ben Key <benk1976@yahoo.com>
When 'inhelp' is true, there are at least two buffers open: an
edit buffer and the help-text buffer.
And bottombars() already does a full refresh of the bottom window.
As the help viewer is almost a normal buffer, commands that make sense
-- like searching backwards, and searching the previous occurrence --
should work in the help viewer too.
In addition, show all Search commands prominently in the help lines of
the help viewer, so that users are likely to notice them and will maybe
infer that they work in the editor itself too.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54368.
With-help-from: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
In the preceding commit, open_buffer() was changed so that it gets
told whether to load into a new buffer or not, so it is no longer
needed to convey this information through a flag.
When just scrolling and the cursor does not need to change position
(that is: it is not on the first or last row of the edit window),
then edit_scroll() has handled everything and there is no need to
additionally redraw anything or update 'placewewant'.
Help texts are shown without any line numbers, so the full width
of the screen should be used to display the text.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53308.
When a fragment of help text does not contain any whitespace that
we can wrap at, just advance the pointer, because returning zero
would mean we stay forever at the same place: nano would hang.
Each leading tab is converted to two tabs, and any leading four spaces
is converted to one tab. The intended tab size (for keeping most lines
within 80 columns) is now four.
The basic idea is that the cursor is always off, except when it needs
to be on: when waiting for text input, and in a few other cases: when
something was searched and found in the help viewer, and in the file
browser when option -g is in effect.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51923.
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
So that these functions have bindings by default, and easy bindings.
Add them to the help viewer too, so that searching backward becomes
possible there.
And hide the cursor again as soon as the user scrolls.
Achieve this through making the 'didfind' variable global.
Also, remove a superfluous call of wnoutrefresh(), as bottombars()
already does that.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50918.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
Things have morphed over time and display_buffer() no longer actually
displays the buffer -- it just displays the title bar, precalculates
the multiline color info, and schedules a refresh of the edit window.
We should measure the length of each /translated/ shortcut description,
not of the original English one.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50899.
Since the help text is searchable, an <End> would go to the end of the
text but would leave a blank line above the statusbar -- a blank line
that wasn't there before, and that is not reached when simply holding
down <Down> all the way from the top.
When nano has multiple files open, closing a help buffer should
not switch to the next buffer in the ring but to the preceding one,
because it was from there that the help screen was invoked.
However, prefer moving the starting point of the text backwards over
moving it forward, so that of the same paragraph more text is shown
instead of less. But scroll an empty line out of view -- no text is
"lost" then.
Allow the user to search in a help text with ^W and M-W.
Achieve this by not writing the help text directly to the screen
but first writing it to a temporary file and then opening this file
in a new buffer, and treating it specially: the normal file-reading
feedback is suppressed, the titlebar shows the headline of the text,
the cursor is hidden, and the menu is limited to just the up and down
movements and searching.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28994.
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Dave <rishabhddave@gmail.com>
The interval 2013-2017 for the Free Software Foundation is valid
because in those years there were releases with changes by either
Chris or David, and the GNU maintainers guide advises to mention
a new year in all files of a package, not just in the ones that
actually changed, and be done with it for the rest of the year.
Benno Schulenberg