Re:Nano 5.0
by acqq on Thursday July 30, 2020 @10:28AM
(#23998564)
Exactly. The real user friendly editor would always show you the "top" commands that can be accepted.
But some !@$ in some distros or programs set the defaults of nano to not show the "help lines." So I know it's Nano, but as I don't use it all the time I don't remember how to do anything but typing the text.
Not a good configuration.
And still, at least after the Esc was pressed it should show the help lines, and not pretend nothing's happened! That's a missing feature! Even decades ago the user friendly text based editors had that.
And the help is still talking about the "Meta" key -- when have you the last time seen the physical keyboard with the key labelled as "Meta"?
But some !@$ in some distros or programs set the defaults of nano to not show the "help lines." So I know it's Nano, but as I don't use it all the time I don't remember how to do anything but typing the text.
Not a good configuration.
And still, at least after the Esc was pressed it should show the help lines, and not pretend nothing's happened! That's a missing feature! Even decades ago the user friendly text based editors had that.
And the help is still talking about the "Meta" key -- when have you the last time seen the physical keyboard with the key labelled as "Meta"?