Using Nano?

[Rob]

I think, if you edit /etc/inputrc, you can set up commands to navigate by 
word, but I am not sure how it all works.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: Using Nano?


>
>
> On 6/24/2015 12:30 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Wow, the edit cursor does not move along with the review cursor... That's
>> horrible.
>
> No, it's not quite as bad as that.  Yes, Speakup doesn't always follow the
> real cursor, but it can be worked around.  Press Enter on the numeric 
> keypad
> to reset the Speakup cursor to the real cursor.  Press the 8 on the 
> numeric
> keypad to read the current line, 5 to read the current word and 2 for the
> current character.  7 and 9 move to the prior and next line, 4 and 6 move 
> by
> word and 1 and 3 move by character.  There is a Speakup guide which is a
> tutorial of sorts.  I think it's on linux-speakup.org but I'm not 
> positive.
> You can press keypad plus to read everything on the screen and keypad 
> Enter
> to shut up speech and move the Speakup cursor back to the real cursor.
> There is also a laptop layout.  You can press Speakup-F1 for help.  The
> Speakup key is 0 on the numeric keypad or the caps lock.
>
>> How does one navigate? Is nano not the editor you use?
>
> I actually now use NE, but I used Nano for a long time.  You navigate with
> the arrow keys.  You move the Speakup cursor with the commands described 
> above.
>
>> I'm used to having one hand on the arrow keys and the other on the ctrl 
>> and
>> meta keys. But it seems as if I can't navigate by word at all. Ctrl+up 
>> and
>> down take me to the top and bottom of the document, ctrl+mod+left and 
>> right
>> (ctrl+home and ctrl+end) take me to the start and end of the line, but
>> ctrl+left and right don't do anything. A guide I read said that 
>> ctrl+space
>> and meta+space would move me by word, but that didn't work for me.
>
> No, Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right usually don't do anything in Linux.  You can
> press Ctrl-G within Nano for help.
>
>> What text editor do you guys normally use for config files, writing 
>> python
>> scripts and whatnot?
>
> There are many choices.  It's not unlike the discussion of which distro to
> use.  Several which come to mind are emacs, vi, ed, ne, and joe.  It's
> mostly a matter of preference.
>
>> If I don't wish to type the file, is there a way to open the file without
>> typing the name? Is there a way to copy and paste lines in the terminal?
>
> Yes to both.  There are several good file managers.  Ranger comes to mind
> and it's pretty good.  Nano has tab completion.  That means you can enter
> part of a file and press Tab to fill in the rest of the name.  If it beeps
> or nothing happens, either there is no file with that prefix or there are
> multiple matches.  Pressing Tab a second time will either do nothing if no
> files match or pop up a list.  This works at the command line and is very
> useful.  For example, to edit a file called myfile, you would type:
>
> nano my (Tab)
>
> Assuming myfile is the only file which starts with "my," "file" would be
> inserted automatically.  The Speakup guide goes into copying and pasting 
> text.
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
>> On 6/24/2015 1:12 AM, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:52:26PM +0200, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> Is there a way to root the editing cursor to the review cursor when
>>>> one is in Nano?
>>> Not as far as I know.
>>>
>>>> Is there also a way to open up a text editor while one is on the
>>>> commandline?
>>> Yes, by typing the editor's name and pressing enter. To bring up nano,
>>>> type nano and press enter.
>>>> How does one normally edit scripts?
>>> Probably the easiest way is to type the script name after the editor
>>> name, and pressing enter. To edit a script called myscript in nano, on
>>> the command-line you'd type:
>>> nano myscript
>>> and press enter.
>>>
>>>> thank you,
>>> You're welcome.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
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