Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] Improve execute command prompt

[Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita]

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Op  5-09-2017 om 00:03 schreef Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita:
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>> The attached patch integrates two of my previous patches to improve
>> the execute command prompt:
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>
> Don't do that.  Keep patches as small as possible.  Keep each part
> that makes a little sense by itself as an independent unit.  If one
> part needs another, you should make a patch set, not one big patch.
>

Ok. I'll try to separate them then.

>> the one that remembers the last command
>> executed and the one that enables history for the prompt. Besides the
>> mentioned features, this patch also adds a configuration flag to
>> enable persistence (log) for the execute command prompt.
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>
> You're going overboard.  Are you using the ^R^X feature that much
> that you want to keep a history of the commands that you execute?
> I can imagine executing a couple of commands again and again, but
> not ten or twenty or more.  What are your use cases?
>

With just a few tweaks, nano can be used as quite a decent IDE.
Actually, I want (in the future) to implement something similar to
gedit's external tools plugin. That would be enough to write and test
small programs regardless of the programming language.