Re: [Nano-devel] patch for navigation in view mode

[Nick Warne]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:04:40 -0700 (PDT)
Jason DeVita <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've made a patch to allow vi/less style navigation while in
> view-mode, and also to toggle between view and edit modes.
> Basically, Mod-1 toggles view-mode.  And when in view-mode, you can
> use h-j-k-l to move the cursor, 'b' and <space> to page up/down, '/'
> to search, n/N to find next/previous match, g/G to goto start/end of
> the document, and 'q' to quit.  I find it much faster to use these
> when I'm mostly navigating, and not doing much editing.
> 
> I'm not much of an applications programmer (I normally write 
> numerical/scientific stuff), so I don't know if what I did is wrong
> or bad.  But it seems to work for me.  The patch is on the svn tip
> (as of today).
> 
> Regards,
> Jason


Being not a user of vi*, and being honed on Pine years ago, and then
finding Nano, why try to change things into what they are not?  Surely
there is enough bloody key options already...

If you like vi* type style editors, then use vi*, surely?

:-) 

Nick
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