Tim here. Depending on the behavior you want, use one of the following in your ~/.nanorc file. If you want soft-wrapping where long lines display as wrapped but the lines remain as individually long lines in the saved file, add set softwrap If you want hard-wrapping where it will automatically insert line-breaks when you exceed the maximum line-length, you can unset nowrap (I find that double-negative is a bit weird). If it's doing that and you *don't* want it to wrap, you can add set nowrap to your file. Additionally, you can also specify where you want it to wrap, either at a particular offset such as 75 characters per line: set fill 75 or at an offset from your right-margin based on your screen-size, such as set fill -5 (the two commands should produce the same results on a standard 80-column terminal) You should be able to read more about each of these options in man nanorc Hope this helps, -tim (for whom this is all a bit foreign since I'm a vi/vim/ed sorta guy and only keep nano around for testing things just like this) On June 14, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi folks, Mark peveto here. > Normally, seems I'd set this in my nanorc, but I can't find it. > What i'm trying to do is make sure long line wrapping is on by > default, so I don't hafta remember to hit alt l every time I start > nano. There's a way to do it, but I dunno wha tit is. Can anyone > help me out? > > > Mark Peveto > Registered Linux user number 600552 > Everything happens after coffee! > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list