[Nano-devel] next paragraph / previous paragraph

[Benno Schulenberg]

The descriptions of movement keys that relate to paragraphs are 
currently like this:

  M-(   (M-9)   Move to the beginning of the current paragraph
  M-)   (M-0)   Move to the end of the current paragraph

But typing, for example, M-( repeatedly, moves the cursor one 
paragraph back every time.  This is unlike the ^A and ^E keys, 
although their descriptions are nearly identical:

  ^A            Move to the beginning of the current line
  ^E            Move to the end of the current line

So in my opinion the description of the M-( and M-) keys should make 
clear that they behave differently.  For example:

  M-(   (M-9)   Move to beginning of paragraph, of previous paragraph
  M-)   (M-0)   Move to end of paragraph, of next paragraph

Or maybe:

  M-(   (M-9)   Move to beginning of (previous) paragraph
  M-)   (M-0)   Move to end of (next) paragraph

Or, as M-) does not move the cursor to the last cahracter of the 
paragraph but exactly one position beyond it:

  M-(   (M-9)   Move to beginning of paragraph, of previous paragraph
  M-)   (M-0)   Move just beyond end of paragraph, of next paragraph

Attached patch proposes the last alternative.


Also, wouldn't these paragraph jumping keys be more useful if they 
not only recognized contiguous lines that start at position zero as 
a single paragraph, but also contiguous lines that all have the same 
indentation?


While at it, I've also made a patch to replace "Move to" with "Go to", 
as "Move" sounds too much like _something is being moved -- at least 
to me.  But feel free to ignore this, as it would mess up too many 
string unnecessarily.

Benno

nano--prev-next-paragraph.patch
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nano--moveto-to-goto.patch
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