Nano 8.0 Text Editor Released With Modern Bindings Option

[Old Grouch]

Just quietly boggling at the fact there exist editors where that is not how you navigate around. I sort of want to know what they do instead, but ... No. No, actually I really don't.

Editors that work on keyboards that do not have arrow keys. Also, some people prefer not to move their hands from the appropriate/standard typing position on a keyboard, even if arrow keys are available.

[F.Ultra]

Not quite correct: It cannot open a file whose name has ":" followed only by digits. Any non-numeric characters after the colon and it treats it as part of the filename.

Still, not great. This wants a way to disable it, either in nanorc or maybe by making it so that using the pre-existing syntax (

nano +<line-number> file:000

) disables it, which would be logical.

I think the simplest solution would to simply stat the file, and only if it's not found you start to look at decoding the :digit format that way you can have the cake and eat it to (and also open a file named test:111 at a specific row).