micro-editor / micro-editor/micro
Typing in Arabic
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Description
Issue
When I set my (physically British or American in the tests) keyboard layout to Arabic (setxkbmap ara) and open Micro I can type, but I cannot work out how to save, quit, etc. The usual ctrl+s is mapped to something else. Is it impossible to call these commands without a latin keyboard layout? Is there a way of remapping these commands?
Context
We distribute our Braille displays (running Raspian) with a variety of keyboards, but certain countries like Egypt tend to use US layout. We are therefore working out how to package and advise use of Micro for customers in these countries.
I appreciate that this may be out of scope for this repo. I'm really not sure. Is there convention for this across Linux CLIs?
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the behavior in Micro after setting the layout with setxkbmap ara, checking whether ctrl+s and other command keys remain usable. Trace the existing command and keybinding entry points, then define whether configurable or layout-independent commands are needed; done means the approach is implemented or clearly documented for Arabic layouts.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli, internationalization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100