micro-editor / micro-editor/micro
Feature Request: make Ctrl+E toggle between command mode and editing mode
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Description
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Currently, Ctrl+E enters cmd mode, and Ctrl+Q quits it. I think it would be nice to add the feature of making Ctrl+E toggle between cmd mode and editor mode, so that if you enter cmd mode with Ctrl+E and then decide to go back to editing, you can simply press Ctrl+E again, since your fingers are already on those keys anyway.
Leave the existing functionality of Ctrl+Q as well.
Update: also make this work for any other shortcut key which opens up a command or command-like prompt. Ex: Ctrl+O currently goes to "open a file". Make it so that pressing Ctrl+O again will cancel that and go back to the editor, just like pressing Ctrl+Q currently does when in that prompt.
Specifications
Commit hash: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/commit/225927b9a25f0d50ea63ea18bc7bb68e404c0cfd
OS: Linux Ubuntu 22.04
Terminal: terminator 2.1.1
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Research direction
Start by tracing the handling for Ctrl+E, Ctrl+O, and Ctrl+Q, including the command mode, editor mode, and open-file prompt mentioned in the issue. Identify how other shortcuts open command-like prompts, then verify that repeating each shortcut returns to editing while Ctrl+Q continues to work; done means the behavior is covered for all such shortcuts.
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- Issue type
- Feature
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