[Nano-devel] Re: essential feature requests

[Chris Allegretta]

Hi Matt,

The bug you mention with re-searching at startup and seach history
should be fixed as of r4531.
I have also implemented the saved cursor position feature you
mentioend, which will be in nano 2.3.0.

I've created a test tarball for you or anyone interested in testing
out this new feature (or
the bugfix for that matter) at
http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/test/nano-2.3.0pre1.tar.gz

Note that this version changes the location of the saved search file,
which it sounds like you
do use quite a bit, to ~/.nano/search_history.  I added a section to
the faq about this but if
you want to switch between nano versions you may want to check out that entry.

Thanks for using nano!

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:05 AM, ML <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi i love nano especially after tweaking nanorc so that it does syntax
> highlighting. I'd like to request 2 features because i often work with
> multiple script files, searching strings and editing functions.
>
> I've enabled 'historylog' from nanorc. But when i open a new file Alt+W does
> not work :( I explicitly have to explain to nano: ctrl+w, uparrow,
> return. Only then does alt+w work as it should. feature request #1 is
> for this to work on startup.
>
> Secondly i'd really really love it if nano has an option to remember
> the last cursor position (and editor-window offset) per file at
> shutdown. The 'Joe' editor has this feature but i want to stick to
> nano please add this.
>
> Many thanks,
> Matt
>
>