Re: [Nano-devel] [RFC] Re-execute last command

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op  7-10-2017 om 09:44 schreef Brand Huntsman:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 01:51:35 -0300 Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Showing that last command in the current execute prompt was rejected. Don't
> > know if it would be accepted if it was disabled by default and only enabled
> > through a setting in nanorc.

Also rejected.  I don't want another setting in the nanorc file.

> I think what was rejected was showing it in the prompt like search does:
>
> "Search [foo]:"
>
> For execute it would look something like:
>
> "Command to execute [from ./] [the last command here]:"

You are using an older version of nano: the "[from ./]" has been gone
from the Execute prompt since version 2.7.5.

> Leaving very little room to type a new command. What I suggest is switching to
> the last command as if it had been selected from history with the up arrow.
>
> "Command to execute [from ./]: the last command here"

That would piss me off royally: that I first have to *clear* what nano
"helpfully" suggests that I want to execute.  Hrrr!

> The down arrow would clear the prompt just as it does now.

Unintuitive.  A newbie would resort to holding down Backspace, and would
think that nano is crapware.

Benno