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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.