[Geany-devel] some features i would love to see optional or standard

[Lex Trotman]

2009/9/14 Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>:
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:48:30 +0200
> Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz at student.HTW-Berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> On 13.09.2009 22:19, Frank Lanitz wrote:
>> > On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:15:12 -0700 (PDT)
>> > ccss net<occssneto at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> hi all, after using many many editors i find geany to be the most
>> >> configurable for hotkeys. although i am very fond of the cli editor
>> >> nano and am used to the hotkeys there, it wasnt a problem to
>> >> duplicate them in geany. asside from 1 aspect. when using ctrl-k to
>> >> cut an entire line of text in nano it will continue adding to the
>> >> buffer if the cursor hasnt moved and another ctrl-k is pressed.
>> >> such as selecting and cuting multiple lines of text. in geany you
>> >> can only cut one line of text in this manner. in nano if the
>> >> cursor moves. it cancels the multiline scenario and awaits either
>> >> a paste or a new cut to replace the old. i would love to see a
>> >> plugin or maybe this a standard option. or if anyone knows of such
>> >> a plugin already i would love to here about it. we can name it
>> >> nano mode?
>> >
>> > I don't know a plugin which is already implementing something like
>> > that. But this could be a good pat of the addons one I guess. - but
>> > of course: somebody have to code it ;)
>> >
>>
>> I think that would be better as the default behavior (and hence being
>> in the core).
>
> No I don't think so. IMHO the default functionality should work analog
> to the normal cut command.
>

I agree the default should match current behaviour, adding the other
so I could bind it to a different key and Thomas and the original
poster could bind it to Ctrl K would be useful.  Then its merely an
implementation detail left as an exercise for the reader :-)

Cheers
Lex



> Thanks,
> Frank
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