Re: [Nano-devel] wishlist

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 07:50, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> * Drop the "Verbatim Input" from the status line as soon as the
> verbatim key combination has been pressed.  The same thing after a
> ^C: clear the status line as soon as another key is pressed.

sounds like you want to enable the quickblank option in your nanorc

remember that much of the quirky default behavior is so that nano acts for the 
most part like pico ... but there are usually options to make it stop sucking 
like pico :)

> * Add some blank lines in the main help text, to give the eye some
> hold in the long list of keys.  As the keys and their descriptions
> are quite wide apart, it's sometimes hard to see which description
> belongs to which key.  A few blank lines will make this easier, at
> least for the first and last few lines of each chunk.  I'd like to
> see a blank line before ^_, ^P, M-D, and M-X.

would be nice if you could search (ctrl+w) help too ...
-mike