Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: limiting the amount of position history

[Mike Frysinger]

On 13 Jan 2016 19:46, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016, at 16:51, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 13 Jan 2016 15:48, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > Anyone against limiting the number or remembered files in
> > > the positions history to 200?
> > 
> > 200 should be more than enough for me.  the lack of readline
> > shortcuts means i rarely (ever?) use more than the last 10.
> 
> ??  What have readline-like shortcuts to do with the storing
> of cursor positions?  You open files in nano with ^R (while
> multibuffer is set)?  What shortcuts would you then like to
> use to open a previously opened file?

the ones related to searching the history.  i'm guessing you don't
use things like history-search-backward and history-search-forward
in your shell.  that allows you to type in the first few chars and
then search based on that.
-mike

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