Re: [Nano-devel] marking the entire buffer?

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 11-10-18 om 21:50 schreef David Ramsey:
> Honestly, I don't even use softmark myself if I can avoid it; one
> accidental finger twitch that moves the cursor and the mark's gone,
> which is sometimes too easily done

This seldom happens to me: as long as I haven't decided what to do
with the marked region, I keep one finger firmly on the Shift key,
and my other fingers are not anywhere near a character key, they
are on the cursor keys.

> Conversely, cut-to-eof is something I use fairly often, but it can be
> easily undone if I accidentally hit Meta-T (which is uncommon, and much
> harder to do than accidentally hitting a movement key without Shift).

In my beginnnings with nano (a decade and a half ago), accidentally
typing M-T instead of M-R happened quite regularly to me.  Ouch: ^X
N <Up> <Enter> and do the edits again.  Nowadays it seldom happens,
and when, it's a simple M-U to undo.  But I still now and then type
^J instead of ^K.  Also easy to undo, if you realize it immediately.

Benno

signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature