Re: [Nano-devel] add position history blacklist regex ?

[Mike Frysinger]

On 20 Jan 2016 10:35, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016, at 21:08, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > one thing i've noticed with the new filepos feature is that it does not
> > play well with files that are, by design, temporal.  for example, when
> > committing w/git, it will always use the filename .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG.
> > or when rebasing, it will always use .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo.
> > the content of these files is never the same, so resuming position is
> > not only pointless, but actually kind of bad as you almost always want
> > the cursor to start at (0,0).
> 
> How about setting EDITOR="nano +1" in .bashrc?

i'll try that.  i can't think of cases where the system is running via
$EDITOR and i don't want it to start at 0,0.  thanks!

> That solves the issue for me with git and svn commit messages.
> Are there any other files where you don't want nano to remember
> the cursor position?

not off the top of my head.
-mike

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