Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] add an "atends" configuration setting

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 07-05-18 om 21:14 schreef address@hidden:
> Didn't check the mailbox before sending the patch.
> I didn't expect you to work on the patch for me,

You hadn't responded for a whole week, and I want to get this thing
in before the next release.

> What do you mean unlikely?
> You're the guy who makes the decisions.

Yes, but if several people say they want this particular Ctrl+Down
behavior, then I might reconsider.

>> I think there is no need for making Ctrl+Down go to the first
>> blank line after a block of text.
> 
> 1. I want to be able to easily navigate to any block beginning/end just like 
> I want
> to easily navigate to any word beginning/end. With previous nano behaviour, I 
> had to
> mash Left/Up key several times to get to the end of a word/block.
> With previous behaviour of nano, I have to mash the Up button until I get 
> there.

How many blank lines do you have between blocks of text?

> 2. I want to do operations (cut, copy, duplicate, delete, comment-out,
> (de)indent, etc...)
> on a block basis, not on a block+whitespace basis.

You have just convinced me that the current behavior for Ctrl+Down shouldn't
change.  Because: if I want to cut or move a block, I want the succeeding
blank line to be included, otherwise it would double the blank line at the
place where I cut and I'd have to hit <Enter> at the place where I paste.

> Just like I want to do operations
> (cut/copy/delete) on a word basis, not on a word + whitespace basis.

Yes, I've noticed that with the --afterends behavior, marking and then
cutting words leaves the final whitespace in place.  This is somewhat
annoying, but I'll live with it: I want the new Ctrl+Right behavior more.

> Do you want me to send a big patch with all the changes or
> do you want me to send an incremental patch that targets nano
> with with this patch already applied?

The latter, of course.  As said before: it should be a separate patch.
So, better wait for --afterends to be merged first, in a day or two.

Benno

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