On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > woohoo. such a small editor making so much noise with only one option. > > i prefer to not touch the upstream nanorc we install. after many > requests i followed Fedora and many other major distributions and > disabled the line wrapping completely via configure. > > i don't know any good situation when line wrapping is useful expect in > writing mails. but who is using nano for that task? (i guess alpine > users go with pico). > > so why do some people want that wrapping back? > > i think a small note about no line wrapping in our installer when it > shows the choise for vi/nano is much more than needed. > > -Andy > Hi, I just wanted to note that I often use line wrapping as it's more convenient than doing it manually. I do however enable it using key commands, and use nowrap in nanorc (since wrapping is so frustrating when it comes to configuration etc). I'd prefer if nano -w was used in the installer, or nowrap in the default nanorc. Better than disabling a feature completely. -- Anders Bergh
