So that the user can do 'bind ^H cutwordleft all' in their nanorc
to make ^H (and sometimes also <Ctrl+Backspace>) delete the word
to the left of the cursor while <Backspace> continues to delete
just one character.
On FreeBSD and NetBSD (when reached through ssh from a Linux machine)
this has the absurd effect of making <Ctrl+Backspace> do a 'cutwordleft'
by default, out of the box, without needing any rebindings. Weird, but
wonderful, because the ideal behavior.
Also ensure that <Shift+Delete> always does a Backspace.
This makes that we have the following set of "congruent" keys:
<Tab> moves text to the right,
<Shift+Tab> moves text to the left,
<Delete> "eats" a character to the right,
<Shift+Delete> "eats" a character to the left,
<Ctrl+Delete> "eats" a word to the right,
<Shift+Ctrl+Delete> "eats" a word to the left.
These are available in the menus where they are relevant: the Write-Out
and the Insert menu, respectively. Having them duplicated in the main
menu is inconsistent and eats precious keystrokes. (Sorry, Chris.)
Since the last version, the user can filter an entire buffer through
an external command. This external command can also be a formatting
program, so there is no longer any need for this specific and special
formatter command.
There are at least three other ways to achieve the thing that it did:
^End, M-/, and ^W^V. No need to have a fourth way by default.
For symmetry, also unassign the corresponding binding for M-|.
The 'cutwordright' function has gotten ^Delete as its default binding,
so the 'cutwordleft' function needs a default binding too -- also to
keep the items on the two help lines nicely paired. M-| was chosen
because it is close to the Backspace key on many keyboard layouts.
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>
Put "Where Was" in its place, to make the symmetry of ^W/M-W/^Q/M-Q
somewhat clearer. Also, conditionally reshuffle "Save File", to try
and keep menu items nicely paired.
Bind the until-now unbound function 'cutwordright' to <Ctrl+Delete>.
The complementary function, 'cutwordleft', is not bound by default
because on many terminals the keystroke <Ctrl+Backspace> generates
^H -- the canonical ASCII backspace character. We cannot change the
existing action of ^H without upsetting some users.
Signed-off-by: Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
To match the documentation and to match what the nanorc.nanorc
colors as valid.
In theory it would be possible to allow rebinding also F17...F63,
but nano does not recognize escape sequences for these high-order
function keys. As no one ever complained about unknown sequences
when pressing function keys, I am guessing that no one has these
high-order keys, or at least that no one uses them.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54332.
This makes things symmetrical: ^W starts a forward search, ^Q starts
a backward search, M-W searches the next occurrence forward, and M-Q
searches the next occurrence backward.
The Tabs-To-Spaces toggle is moved to M-O, and thus the More-Space
toggle is no longer bound by default.
When executing a command, it is now possible to pipe the entire buffer
(or the marked region, if anything is marked) to the external command.
The output from the command replaces the buffer (or the marked region),
or goes to a new buffer.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28993,
and fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53041.
Signed-off-by: Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
This makes the names of these bindable functions equal to the names of
their corresponding options -- like for all the other toggles that have
a corresponding option.
Benno Schulenberg