Re: [Nano-devel] Updated to 2.4, arrow keys now move word at a time. How to get old char at a time behaviour?

[Mark Majeres]

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> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 21:08:56 +1100
> From: Daurnimator <address@hidden>
> To: Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
> Cc: Nano <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Nano-devel] Updated to 2.4, arrow keys now move word at
>       a time. How to get old char at a time behaviour?
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> On 1 April 2015 at 20:49, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015, at 03:08, Daurnimator wrote:
>>> I updated to nano 2.4,
>>> My arrow keys now move the cursor a word at a time.
>>
>> Wow!  ...  This is an April first, right?  :)
>
> Sadly no. unless it's built into nano :P
>
>> If not, exactly what system is this on?  What OS, what terminal,
>> what everything?
>
> OS is Arch Linux x64.
> nano was inside tmux inside of PuTTY.
> I tried putty in 3 keyboard modes: "ESC[n~", "Linux" and "VT100+"
>
> As I'm writing this email, I tried it outside of tmux; and it worked fine!
> So something going on weird in there....
> doesn't seem to be $TERM.
>
> FWIW, the arrow keys seem to work correctly in other programs.
> One (working) example being readline editing.
>

Maybe try another ncurses program in that environment to see if its a
lib problem.
Also, show your output of nano --ver, please.


--Mark