Re: [Help-nano] navigating in text with ctrl-key

[Agnar Ødegård]

Thanks for the reply.

Isn't it possible to make another key-combination to accomplish this? Like
z+left to go left and z+right to go right? Or will this mess up the philosophy
behind nano? ;)

Regards,
Agnar

> --- Agnar Ødegård <address@hidden> wrote:
>>Hi, I've searched high and low trying to find out if it's possible to
>>navigate through the text with CTRL left/right-key to jump word by
>>word...
>
> Unfortunately, no.  Meta-Space and Ctrl-Space are the only keys to do
> that.  This is because in text mode, there's no way for nano to tell the
> difference between Ctrl-Left and Left and between Ctrl-Right and Right.
>
>>Hope this was the correct list to subscribe to :)
>
> Don't worry; it was :)
>