Subj : Nano
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ed Vance
Date : Sun Nov 03 2024 21:04:57



> Hi Mike!

> From my limited experience it's always the line the cursor is on.  The 
> thing to watch is sometimes there seem to be two cursors: thea real one 
> and the one where I think I am because I moved some place.  Not sure how
> to explain it but I've managed to do the I thought I was here thing.

> To move a line I've ^K (kills/deletes the whole line), then move to 
> desired location and ^U to insert there.

> I've also done a ^K^U^U sequence: kills the line, replaces it and then
> places it immediately underneath (the result is two duplicate lines).  
> For me handy when playing with stuff like fstab and scripts where I want
> a copy of the original line (for comparison, history) and modify the new
> one.

> Example:
>        #  RAM drive  of 50 MB
>        # tmpfs  /mnt/ramdisk  tmpfs  rw,size=50M  0   0
>        tmpfs  /mnt/ramdisk  tmpfs  rw,size=5G  0   0

> 50 Mb wprked but not large enough.  G option  should work - yup!  If 
> didn't easy enough to go back.

> It should come back like riding a bike: scraped kneeds and all! <bseg>

> Expand the Terminal screen to larger/full size: there are a whole bunch 
> of other options!

> ^W     "Where" -- how-come not ^F for "Find"?  I sort of use Where's 
>         Waldo to remind me of W
>         
> For line numbering it's something like ALT_Shift_#  (or 3) -- I don't
> use it that often.  Have found sometimes the line numbers in an error
> message don't line up.  'Error line 30' might not be close, but could be
> because I tend to use a lot of comments, separators (series of 
> ##########), and blank lines -- just to make it more readable.

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Does pressing and releasing a CTRL key show where the Cursor is located as
Window XP does?
Ed
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