Hi Steve,
Op 04-12-18 om 03:03 schreef Steve McIntyre: > I'm seeing this difference in the two help lines at the bottom. [...] Okay: the udeb version shows "^S Save" and "^Q Where Was" at the end of the two help lines. First, how realistic or probable is it that nowadays someone would install Debian while connected with a terminal over a serial line? Second, is it possible to detect that the current terminal is using a real serial line? If yes, then nano could suppress the showing of ^S and ^Q in that case. > The script debian/rules is responsible for building three different > versions from a single source tree: > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/nano/blob/master/debian/rules If I understand the rules script well, a udeb version is identical to a tiny version (also in the installation part, they just remove all documentation in a different way). > CONFFLAGS_tiny = \ > --enable-tiny \ > --disable-speller \ > --disable-justify \ > --disable-tabcomp \ > --disable-nls \ > --disable-wrapping \ > --with-slang > > Hmmm. I'm pondering if it's just the --disable-wrapping and > --disable-speller that are causing the differences here... No, the --disable-speller and --disable-wrapping and --disable-justify and --disable-tabcomp are superfluous here: they are all comprised in --enable-tiny. The flags could thus be reduced to just: --enable-tiny --disable-nls --with-slang. If detection of a serial line is not possible, then maybe I could suppress the showing of ^S and ^Q when --with-slang is used. The --with-slang option is used probably only by Debian, because its use severely handicaps nano's keyboard handling. If it is possible to use ncurses, nobody should be using --with-slang. (In fact, it would be better if the flags for the tiny version did not include --with-slang. It would still build a small binary, but would be able to understand things like <Ctrl+Left/Right>. Only the udeb version should use --with-slang, *if* the installation environment does not provide ncurses.) Benno
