Re: [Nano-devel] feedback on long searches, and subtler spell checking

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016, at 14:01, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> So the first proposed patch adds some feedback: when the search
> takes (on average) longer than half a second, a message is shown
> on the statusbar: "Searching..."  This also turns the cursor off,
> making it still clearer that nano is not in a state where the
> user can type anything (other than Cancel).

Applied in SVN, r5767.

> Second.  When using the internal spell checker to correct
> misspellings, and you've edited a replacement, nano will
> ask for every occurrence of the misspelled word whether
> to replace it or not.  That is fine.  But when you press
> Cancel, it stops and finishes the entire spell checking!
> I think it should continue with the next word, and only
> abort the checking upon a second Cancel.  [...]  So...
> in order to achieve the same skip-the-rest-and-goto-next
> behavior that Pico exhibits when typing N, I think nano
> should do that when typing Cancel.  Attached second patch
> (dead simple) implements that.

Applied in SVN, r5774.

Benno

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