Re: [Nano-devel] who uses ^R to create a new file?

[Mike Frysinger]

On 11 Jul 2015 12:12, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> At the moment, when using ^R in multibuffer mode and
> trying to read in a file that does not exist, nano will
> create an empty buffer with the specified name, as if
> the user intended to create a new file.  Does anyone
> purposefully use this feature/bug?
> 
> My guess is that when people use ^R, they want to read in
> an existing file, and if they make a typo and the file
> doesn't exist, nano should just mention this and not do
> anything else.

we shouldn't attempt to read a file if they just hit enter after ^R, but 
otherwise keeping that trick to create a new buffer makes sense to me.
-mike

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