On 10 November 2015 at 21:27, Benno Schulenberg <bensb...@justemail.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015, at 20:10, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
>> What are your plans for this bug?
>
> I was still waiting for your answer to this question:
>
>>>And when you start an xterm, and run there an unpatched nano,
>>>do Ctrl-Left/Right work there?
>
> I mean the program 'xterm', which opens an ugly terminal window.
>

Sorry, same bad behaviour :-(

>
>> Might I expect a fix?
>
> Probably yes.  But there is a problem.  Your xfce4-terminal generates
> for Ctrl-Right the same code as the pantheon-terminal for Ctrl-Down.
> So, when I accept this patch into nano, it would mean that on a
> pantheon-terminal both Ctrl-Right and Ctrl-Down do a 'nextword'.
> That's a bit weird.  But more importantly, it would mean that I
> then can't give new meanings to Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down (which
> currently don't do anything special, just the same as Up and Down.
>

perhaps you could check from nano the terminal type and set the codes
conditionally to terminal types.

> For now you can use your patched nano, no?

Well, the thing is I managed lots of servers, and I don't want to
deploy a custom-patched version of nano to all of them :-S

thanks, regards.
-- 
Arturo Borrero González

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