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a keybinding for help perhaps? #13
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Right now Dit has a severe issue with discoverability.
Yes, the default shortcuts are very common on desktops, but very different for most terminal programs.
So a hotkey, presented somewhere on screen, that list out the bindings, may be of benefit.
Reacted by Waldir Pimenta
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daurnimator commentedon Sep 11, 2017
And help should obviously be under F1 :)
hishamhm commentedon Sep 11, 2017
...and unfortunately Ctrl+H conflicts with backspace in many terminals, though I think there may be curses/terminal trickery to change that behavior. I'd love to have it available both at F1 and Ctrl+H by default if these keys worked, but I'll also need a third option.
(Btw, I feel that Dit is running out of Ctrl keys. Thinking about what do do about this...)
daurnimator commentedon Sep 11, 2017
hishamhm commentedon Sep 11, 2017
Ctrl+G is goto line...
hishamhm commentedon Sep 11, 2017
(which also works as "goto tab" if you type the name of a filename instead of a number... another undocumented features that highlights the need of a help screen!)
ermo commentedon Oct 20, 2020
Please add "Press CTRL+? for help" or "Help: CTRL+?" in the default modeline at the bottom when the editor starts.
In actual fact, it doesn't much matter what the key combination is, it just matters that it is easily visible and discoverable the first time dit is started. It could be ESC for all I care.
Thanks.
P.S. Found
ditwhen looking through some GoboLinux scripts which mentioned the default${EDITOR}command. Also fired upditfor the first time in GoboLinux just now.