lhmouse
commented
3 years ago Linter (Meta-B), spellchecker (F12) and invocation of other programs (Ctrl-R followed by Ctrl-X) are not supported because their implementations require the fork() syscall which does not exist on Windows. They have to be reimplemented with very different code.
Gavin-Holt
Hi
Nano may just be the sweet spot for 95% of my editing needs - I am a non-compiling windows user!
I like a portable installation on my USB stick and have a batch file to load nano.exe - below.
As the key bindings were unfamiliar I have used AutoHotKey to translate (also sends mouse wheel and paste from windows clipboard) - below.
With the simple things done I have run in to the "Not supported on Windows yet" message with the following commands:
linter I would love to call the Lua linter - LuaCheck.exe https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck
execute: In order to cut/copy to the windows system clipboard I would like to invoke clip.exe with the contents of the nano cutbuffer. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/clip In order to run the file/script I am editing I would like to invoke shelexec.exe with the current filename. http://www.naughter.com/shelexec.html In order to manipulate blocks of text I would like to pipe the current selection to a Lua script and insert the returned text.
speller: I use a windows compiled version of hunspell.exe - could this be called from nano-win? https://github.com/iquiw/hunspell-binary/releases/tag/v1.7.0
I guess the execute command is the key to all of these limitations, is there any chance of nano-win being patched to enable execute, flippipe, flipexecute, flipnewbuffer?
Very grateful for any insights, and many thanks for posting binary releases of nano-win (https://files.lhmouse.com/nano-win/) for us mere mortals.
Kind Regards Gavin Holt
nano.bat:
@echo off REM Run Nano as a portable application REM See autohotkey for keyboard reassignment
REM Change to this batch directory CD /D %~dp0
REM Maximise console size tools\cmdmax.exe
REM Use a color theme tools\colortool.exe -q tools\themes\textadept.ini
REM Set title so autohotkey can find it! title nano.exe
REM Run with local rc file REM nano.exe --rcfile=nano.rc %*
exit
autohotkey script:
; Nano enhancements
If WinActive("Administrator: nano.exe") or WinActive("nano.exe")
{ ; --zap is set ; ^':: Send ''{Left} ^2:: Send ""{Left} ^9:: Send (){Left} ^0:: Send (){Left} ^[:: Send []{Left} ^]:: Send []{Left} ^5:: Send
%%{Left} ^+[:: Send {{}{}}{Left} ^+]:: Send {{}{}}{Left} ^TAB::Send !. ^+TAB::Send !, ^Up::Send !q ^Down::Send !w WheelUp::Send ^p^p^p WheelDown::Send ^n^n^n ^a::Send ^{Home}+^{End} ; Select all ^b::Send ^a ; BOL !b::return ; disable invoke linter ^+b::Send +{Home} ; Select BOL ^c::Send !6 ; Copy to local cutbuffer ; ^d::return ; disable del, Can't find a way to duplicate block ; ^e:: Built in :) ; EOL +^e::Send +{End} ; Select EOL ^f::Send ^w ; Find text +^f::Send ^/ ; Find RE ^g::Send ^_ ; Goto ^h::Send ^\ ; Replace ^!i::Send ^r ; Insert file ^j::Send !] ; Jump brackets !j::return ; disables justification ^+j::return ; disables justification ^k::Send +{End}{Backspace} ; kill right ^+k::Send +^a{Del} ; kill left ^l::return ; disable centre line !l::return ; disables toggle hard wrapping ^m::Send !a ; set/unset mark ^n::Send ^t{Enter} ; Execute not supported - but used to make a new buffer ^o::Send ^r^t ; Open browser !o::^o ; Export selection or whole file ^p::Send ^u ; Paste ^q::Send !3 ; Line quotes ^r::return ; disable read, Can't work out how to revert to file copy ; ^s:: Built in :) ; Complains if backup set ^t::return ; disable execute !t::return ; disable cutting to end of file ^v::^u ; Paste from local cutbuffer ^RButton:: SendInput {RAW}%ClipBoard% ; Paste from system buffer ^w::Send ^x ; Close ^x::Send ^k ; Cut to local cutbuffer ^y::Send !{Del} ; Delete sel or line ^z::Send !u ; Undo ^+z::Send !e ; Redo Esc::Send {F12} ; Will be interpreted using bindings in nano.rc F2::Send !{PgDn} ; Next bookmark ^F2::Send !{Ins} ; Toggle bookmark +F2::Send !{PgUp} ; Previous bookmark ^/::^t ^Enter::^] ; Complete word }nano.rc:
set atblanks set autoindent unset backup unset backupdir "..\zBackup" set brackets ""')>]}" unset constantshow set fill -8 set linenumbers set matchbrackets "(<[{)>]}" set mouse set multibuffer set nohelp set numbercolor white,black set indicator set positionlog set punct "!.?" set quickblank set showcursor set smarthome set softwrap set tabsize 4 set tabstospaces set trimblanks set zap
include "properties/awk.nanorc" include "properties/batch.nanorc" include "properties/css.nanorc" include "properties/cmake.nanorc" include "properties/default.nanorc" include "properties/html.nanorc" include "properties/ini.nanorc" include "properties/javascript.nanorc" include "properties/lua.nanorc" include "properties/makefile.nanorc" include "properties/markdown.nanorc" include "properties/moonscript.nanorc" include "properties/sed.nanorc" include "properties/text.nanorc" include "properties/vi.nanorc"
bind F12 cancel all bind F12 exit main bind F12 exit browser bind F12 exit help