Re: [Nano-devel] patch for navigation in view mode

[Nick Warne]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:55:41 -0700 (PDT)
Jason DeVita <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Nick Warne wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:04:40 -0700 (PDT)
> > Jason DeVita <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've made a patch to allow vi/less style navigation while in
> >> view-mode, and also to toggle between view and edit modes.
> >> Basically, Mod-1 toggles view-mode.  And when in view-mode, you can
> >> use h-j-k-l to move the cursor, 'b' and <space> to page up/down,
> >> '/' to search, n/N to find next/previous match, g/G to goto
> >> start/end of the document, and 'q' to quit.  I find it much faster
> >> to use these when I'm mostly navigating, and not doing much
> >> editing.
> >>
> >> I'm not much of an applications programmer (I normally write
> >> numerical/scientific stuff), so I don't know if what I did is wrong
> >> or bad.  But it seems to work for me.  The patch is on the svn tip
> >> (as of today).
> >
> > Being not a user of vi*, and being honed on Pine years ago, and then
> > finding Nano, why try to change things into what they are not?
> > Surely there is enough bloody key options already...
> >
> > If you like vi* type style editors, then use vi*, surely?
> 
> I figured I might get a reaction like this.  Truth is I hate vi with
> a passion.  Don't get me started on all the things that I hate about
> vi -- you don't have time to sit through that rant.
> 
> My true motivation was the "less" pager.  I find navigating through a 
> document with "less" to be very easy and efficient.  And while I love 
> nano, and most of the time I happily use the nano ctrl sequences to 
> navigate, at times I found myself wishing I could use less-style 
> navigation.  So I added it, in such a way that the regular nano edit
> mode is unchanged.  This patch only affects view-mode (plus being
> able to toggle between the two).
> 
> If nobody likes it, that's fine.  I'll just keep using by myself like
> I've been for the past month or so.  I just thought others might find
> it as useful as I have, so I posted it.
> 
> Regards,
> Jason

Well, I am only a user of Nano... and I was just squinnying my
perferables (sp?).  I didn't mean it to be, nor meant to be
it to a destructive comment.

If the Nano devs like it...

Nick
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