[Nano-devel] some whitespace and several changed messages

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi,

A substring of the new Browser Search Command Help Text ends in a 
space on a line by itself.  This had me a bit confused during 
translation, the space not being visible in KBabel.  I think it's 
better to put the space at the start of the next substring.  
Attached patch does this.  For consistency it does this also for 
another singular space.

Double quotes were added to several messages, but for the following 
one this may cause a little puzzlement:
  
  Argument \"%s\" has unterminated \"

Resulting in:

  Error in /usr/local/etc/nanorc on line 20: 
    Argument ""/home/ben/nil" has unterminated "

The following would be slightly clearer, in my opinion:

    Argument '"/home/ben/nil' has unterminated "

Further, the Execute Command Help Text uses the word "menu" 
where "mode" is more appropriate, I think.  See the first patch.


The second patch suggests some changes to the help texts, mostly the 
use of the word "Toggle" for the toggling Meta key combinations.  
And it adds a period to two messages that are sentences: it helps a 
tiny bit to distinguish them from error messages.  And it removes 
some periods elsewhere, as other statusbar messages don't have one 
either.

Something that occurred to me while toying about with the toggles, 
is that switching on Appending or Prepending should clear the 
current filename: I can't think of any good use of prepending or 
appending the current file to itself.

And to conclude, one question: why so many newlines before 'Use "fg" 
to return to nano'?

Benno

nano--whitespace-and-nuance.patch
Description: Text Data

nano--suggested-message-changes.patch
Description: Text Data