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GNU Nano gains optional modern keybindings – OSnews

www.osnews.com GNU Nano gains optional modern keybindings – OSnews

I almost feel like this a somewhat pointless feature. It's almost easier to just learn the default ones as opposed to adding "-modernbindings" or creating an "enano" variant/copy.

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That's your opinion.

I like updating it to modern conventions. One day they become default and on another day you get rid of the old ones. The people of the future don't have to learn two sets of keybindings.
- It's definitely just my opinion. Honestly did not mean to imply otherwise.
  
  I would almost prefer them to just switch to the new keybindings by default in version 8.0.
  
  It's definitely just my opinion. Honestly did not mean to imply otherwise.
  
  For my opinion I usually create a comment below my post to seperate my opinion and the post itself.
  
  On-topic: I do believe it's useful to have this switch and there's nothing stopping distros to change their default. Completely replacing the default keybindings might be surprising to long time users, but I also believe it should be done at some point. For the meantime this switch can be simply added as an alias.
After all that, no ^S to save 🥲
- ^S for unprompted save is in the default keybinds, not that I could say when it was added. (Pretty sure it wasn't a pico thing, but that leaves quite a bit of time unaccounted for.)
  
  Muscle memory for other editors kicked in when I was editing something and did a literal slow realisation and double-take when it worked.
  
  Now if only I could stop pressing ^W in Firefox to use nano's "whereis" to find something that'd be great.
  
  For those unaware, it closes the current tab. Or the whole browser. Ugh.
  
  :GASP: ^S does save! I have played myself for a fool all these years!!
  
  Now I just have to unlearn ^X, Y, enter. . . :thisisfine:
  
  Firefox desperately needs a way to customize keyboard shortcuts, especially to disable them. Shortkeys isn't really enough.
  
  FYI: ctrl + shift + t brings back closed tabs.
- True, I remember the first time I used nano, I was like "Ctrl + O to save, huh?"
  
  ^S works!! ...As revealed by our kind palindromic friend on the other sibling comment! Why they don't just list it on the statusbar we would never know!
"modern" is a very loaded term here
What does "modern" mean? Emacs-like? Vim-like? Some other bastard system?
- Read the Article. Modern like what most Graphical Editors Ship.
  
  So "some other bastard system" it is, then.
  
  That's a shame; a GNU project should be consistently GNU-like (i.e. adopt Emacs key bindings).
Wait, people are still using nano?
- People who only use the terminal to edit a few config files are usually fine with nano. Even more so with these new keybindings.
  
  For more involved edits an editor like VSCode is usually more useful anyway.
  
  For me vim works well, but I've already taken the time to learn its basic usage.
- I've never used anything else since I met Linux in 2018
- Nano rock!!!, it get the jobs done and doesn't make everything difficult for no reason
- Yes
- Ships with Gentoo by default, since you actually need a nongraphical editor there and nano is easier to learn than vi or emacs.
- I started with vi, and I still prefer to use nano.
- I use both nano and vim, so eh
- Well yeah, for computers in kindergarten schools.

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