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Are you sure about those nano commands? Since a few years I've always found nano system defaults to be: ^s: Save ^o: Save as (type out filename, save and retu

by Jiocus 3y ago

Are you sure about those nano commands? Since a few years I've always found nano system defaults to be: ^s: Save ^o: Save as (type out filename, save and return to editing) In other words, to save and quit: ^s,^x

xp84 3y ago
If that’s true, I’ve been literally wasting a really annoying keystroke every time. Why on Earth don’t they include SAVE in the list of commands they advertise in the footer?
- Jiocus 3y ago
  Let's see what nano says in ^G (help): ^S Save file without prompting
  - xp84 3y ago
    I appreciate that and will be forever grateful to you personally from now on when I hit ^S, but I just never thought to search the Help for it, since I figured something so critical would surely not have been omitted from the footer menu if it existed! Let's just take a moment to appreciate what is apparently more important than the happy-path activity of saving your file: ^G Get Help ^O WriteOut ^R Read File ^Y Prev Pg ^K Cut Text ^C Cur Pos ^X Exit ^J Justify ^W Where is ^V Next Pg ^U UnCut Text^T To Spell Of these, I to this day have no idea what ^J, ^C, and ^T would even do. Who the heck tries to justify text in a plaintext editor? Lol.
    - Jiocus 3y ago
      To be fair, I just discovered that many(all?) of the commands listed in ^G (help) are actually in the footer menu, but the menu is truncated to what available space is available on 2 rows × char width. Save is positioned very far to the right as the last item. According to nano, the rationale of the order is: > "The bottom two lines show the most commonly used shortcuts in the editor." I still use ^O a lot due to heuristics of reading a file X, to use as a template for a new file Y (think nginx server block). The intent to use ^O, in those cases, actually precedes firing up nano.
    - xyproto 3y ago
      * ^J is not very useful, it combines a block of lines into a single line. * ^T requires a spell checker to be installed. I get: Error invoking "spell", even though I have aspell, gspell, hspell, huspell, hunspell and also nuspell installed. Who knows how to configure this. * ^C outputs information about the current cursor position, but "Cur Pos" is not a helpful description.
- tpoacher 3y ago
  not only that, you can type ^x directly; if the file was modified you'll be prompted for a "save y/n" before exit
  - xp84 3y ago
    Sadly, doing that takes you to Save As (the ^O thing) by default for some crazy reason, meaning you'd be doing ^X, y, [Enter]. I'm now a convert of ^S^X!

by Jiocus 3y ago

xp84 3y ago

If that’s true, I’ve been literally wasting a really annoying keystroke every time. Why on Earth don’t they include SAVE in the list of commands they advertise in the footer?

Jiocus 3y ago
Let's see what nano says in ^G (help): ^S Save file without prompting
- xp84 3y ago
  I appreciate that and will be forever grateful to you personally from now on when I hit ^S, but I just never thought to search the Help for it, since I figured something so critical would surely not have been omitted from the footer menu if it existed! Let's just take a moment to appreciate what is apparently more important than the happy-path activity of saving your file: ^G Get Help ^O WriteOut ^R Read File ^Y Prev Pg ^K Cut Text ^C Cur Pos ^X Exit ^J Justify ^W Where is ^V Next Pg ^U UnCut Text^T To Spell Of these, I to this day have no idea what ^J, ^C, and ^T would even do. Who the heck tries to justify text in a plaintext editor? Lol.
  - Jiocus 3y ago
    To be fair, I just discovered that many(all?) of the commands listed in ^G (help) are actually in the footer menu, but the menu is truncated to what available space is available on 2 rows × char width. Save is positioned very far to the right as the last item. According to nano, the rationale of the order is: > "The bottom two lines show the most commonly used shortcuts in the editor." I still use ^O a lot due to heuristics of reading a file X, to use as a template for a new file Y (think nginx server block). The intent to use ^O, in those cases, actually precedes firing up nano.
  - xyproto 3y ago
    * ^J is not very useful, it combines a block of lines into a single line. * ^T requires a spell checker to be installed. I get: Error invoking "spell", even though I have aspell, gspell, hspell, huspell, hunspell and also nuspell installed. Who knows how to configure this. * ^C outputs information about the current cursor position, but "Cur Pos" is not a helpful description.
tpoacher 3y ago
not only that, you can type ^x directly; if the file was modified you'll be prompted for a "save y/n" before exit
- xp84 3y ago
  Sadly, doing that takes you to Save As (the ^O thing) by default for some crazy reason, meaning you'd be doing ^X, y, [Enter]. I'm now a convert of ^S^X!