Right after the nano maintainer got bullied out by the FSF, I noticed two bindings got their defaults changed. They never change. I almost feel like it was graffiti, a flex against the old maintainer, a retribution for not doing whatever the FSF wanted.
Since forever, GNU readline programs and nano had identical bindings. I'm fast moving around the CLI because I'm fast at nano. Emacs has the same defaults. What sane organization only abandons their own defaults and prioritizes that work after pushing the existing maintainer out (or irritating them enough to accomplish this)?
Seems GP got somewhere confused as well. From `man nano`:
Since version 8.0, to be newcomer friendly, ^F starts a forward
search, ^B starts a backward search, M-F searches the next occurrence
forward, and M-B searches the next occurrence backward. If you want
those keystrokes to do what they did before version 8.0, add the fol‐
lowing lines at the end of your nanorc file:
bind ^F forward main
bind ^B back main
bind M-F formatter main
bind M-B linter main
M-F/B have not defaulted to nextword/prevword, or at least haven't within the last 10y since have those binds in the earliest version of nanorc in my .config git repo.
Since forever, GNU readline programs and nano had identical bindings. I'm fast moving around the CLI because I'm fast at nano. Emacs has the same defaults. What sane organization only abandons their own defaults and prioritizes that work after pushing the existing maintainer out (or irritating them enough to accomplish this)?