Seems GP got somewhere confused as well. From `man nano`: Since version 8.0, to be newcomer friendly, ^F starts a forward search, ^B starts

Seems GP got somewhere confused as well. From `man nano`: Since version 8.0, to be newcomer friendly, ^F starts a forward search, ^B starts a backward search, M-F searches the next occurrence forward, and M-B searches the next occurrence backward. If you want those keystrokes to do what they did before version 8.0, add the fol‐ lowing lines at the end of your nanorc file: bind ^F forward main bind ^B back main bind M-F formatter main bind M-B linter main M-F/B have not defaulted to nextword/prevword, or at least haven't within the last 10y since have those binds in the earliest version of nanorc in my .config git repo.