[brachiator]

I've been using nano to edit text and wanted to step up my game by using nano's keyboard commands. Some of these, however, conflict with OSX system key shortcuts (e.g., ^Space, which in nano moves the cursor forward one word but in OSX invokes Spotlight).

How are people working around this? Or is there nothing for it but to remap those OSX keyboard shortcuts?

Thanks.
Mike

[seanc]

Originally Posted by brachiator 

I've been using nano to edit text and wanted to step up my game by using nano's keyboard commands. Some of these, however, conflict with OSX system key shortcuts (e.g., ^Space, which in nano moves the cursor forward one word but in OSX invokes Spotlight).

How are people working around this? Or is there nothing for it but to remap those OSX keyboard shortcuts?

Thanks.
Mike

Well, for the above shortcut and I think all the rest, you press control, not command.

[brachiator]

Originally Posted by seanc 

Some of these, however, conflict with OSX system key shortcuts (e.g., ^Space, which in nano moves the cursor forward one word but in OSX invokes Spotlight).

Well, for the above shortcut and I think all the rest, you press control, not command.

Thanks, seanc. I should have been more clear – I have cmd-Space set to invoke Launchbar, so ctl-Space invokes Spotlight. I'm not trying to use the command key in nano.

The control key combinations work in nano so long as there's not an OSX systemwide use for them. So, e.g., ctl-K deletes the current line...

I guess the solution may be to not map anything in the GUI to the control key, because the control key is relied upon so much in the CLI.