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GNU Nano gains optional modern keybindings – OSnews (www.osnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I almost feel like this a somewhat pointless feature. It's almost easier to just learn the default ones as opposed to adding "-modernbindings" or creating an "enano" variant/copy.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

That's your opinion.

I like updating it to modern conventions. One day they become default and on another day you get rid of the old ones. The people of the future don't have to learn two sets of keybindings.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

While I am usually resistant to change, I remain ever vigilant to try not be that XKCD guy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's definitely just my opinion. Honestly did not mean to imply otherwise.

I would almost prefer them to just switch to the new keybindings by default in version 8.0.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's definitely just my opinion. Honestly did not mean to imply otherwise.

For my opinion I usually create a comment below my post to seperate my opinion and the post itself.

On-topic: I do believe it's useful to have this switch and there's nothing stopping distros to change their default. Completely replacing the default keybindings might be surprising to long time users, but I also believe it should be done at some point. For the meantime this switch can be simply added as an alias.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fair point. I guess this was more of a casual post, so I didn't think too much about it.

I would have preferred if they switched to new keyboard model in version 8.x by default.

I am a relatively light Linux user. Raspberry Pi headless via DietPi/Debian for NAS/Media server/torrents/PiHole and some experiments with self hosted services on major cloud services. I prefer to stick to defaults whenever possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I prefer to stick to defaults whenever possible.

Same goes for me.
E.g. changing vim keybindings on my local system to better suit my non-QWERTY keyboard would be annoying since they don't transfer to remote systems. That's a reason I like fish, because it's defaults are modern and useable, compared to zsh/bash which benefits strongly from plugins.