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bug #57797: [Request] when zap is set, typing any character should replace the marked text

Submitter:  Saagar Jha <saagarjha>
Submitted:  Wed 12 Feb 2020 01:01:46 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  1 - Wish Status:  Wont Fix
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed

Wed 12 Feb 2020 12:46:28 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The 'set zap' option was added to make it easier to delete marked regions: not just with ^K but also with <Backspace> or <Delete>.  That was a concession to ease of use.  But typing any plain character should never destroy any other text.  Nano demands that the user is chirurgical about her operations: if she wants to delete something, she must give a deleting command.

Also, there are users that first set the mark, then type what they want to have marked, then use M-6 to copy this text, and use ^U to paste this text also in other places.  If typing a character would delete the currently marked region, that manner of working would no longer be possible.  Or it would mean that a hard-marked region (started with ^6) would behave different in this respect from a Shift-selected region.  I don't want to go there.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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Wed 12 Feb 2020 01:01:46 AM UTC, original submission:  

Since zap seems to have been added to match how most editors handle selections, it seems like it would be logical to have this work too (specifically, if you have a marked region and type "a" then it's as if you typed "delete" followed by "a") specifically when this setting is enabled. I'd expect that the people who enable this are looking for an experience that matches other editors anyways. (I'm actually curious if the current behavior of just adding the character to the marked region is there as a holdover from pico, or because there's a use for it that I haven't found yet…)

Saagar Jha <saagarjha>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2020-03-25 bens Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2020-02-12 bens Severity3 - Normal 1 - Wish
        StatusNone Wont Fix
        Summary[Request] When zap is set, typing any character should replace the marked text [Request] when zap is set, typing any character should replace the marked text

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