On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:46 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:38:40PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:32 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 01:18:59PM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > > == Scope ==
> > > * Proposal owners:
> > > ** Modify comps to include nano Fedora wide.
> > > ** Create a new subpackage of <code>nano</code>, called
> > > <code>nano-editor</code>.
> > > ** <code>nano-editor</code> to include
> > > <code>/usr/lib/environment.d/10-nano.conf</code>, which sets
> > > <code>$EDITOR</code> to <code>nano</code>.
> >
> > There's one nitpick with using nano in 'git commit' and similar:
it'll
> > ask about the name to save as:
> > ^X
> > Save modified buffer? Y
> > File Name to Write:
/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/.git/worktrees/systemd-work/COMMIT_EDITMSG
> >
> > Would it be possible to skip this last question in those scenarios?
> > It the answer is "no", that's OK, but if it would be easy,
it'd make
> > usage a bit nicer. 'vi' and 'emacs -nw' don't ask.
>
> The -t/--tempfile switch for nano (and pico) does exactly this:
>
https://linux.die.net/man/1/nano
Nice! I wonder if we could make EDITOR='nano --tempfile' the default? For git
and
similar cases this would work nicely, but I'm not sure about all the other cases
where $EDITOR is used...
Yeah, I'm not sure either. My guess is $EDITOR is mostly invoked to
edit temporary files/buffers or files that already exist somewhere,
but I have no data to back that up.
I did just try running "nano -t" on its own to see what happens; if
you enter some text and then try to quit, it complains that there's no
file name and then, after a short delay, prompts you for one with the
normal save dialog. It's not terrible, but the delay (to give you time
to read the error message, I guess) is a little annoying.
(For what it's worth: this can also apparently be accomplished by a
nanorc setting ("set tempfile"), but presumably we wouldn't want to
set this there).
Ben Rosser