Difference between revisions of "Editor: nano"

From Dreamwidth Notes
Jump to: navigation, search
Line 5: Line 5:
 
<source lang="bash">nano -w filename</source>
 
<source lang="bash">nano -w filename</source>
  
To tell nano to not wrap lines by default, add (or uncomment) this line in /etc/nanorc:
+
To tell nano to not wrap lines by default, add (or uncomment) this line in /etc/nanorc or ~/.nanorc:
  
<code>set nowrap</code>
+
<source lang="text">set nowrap</source>
  
  
 
[[Category: Editors]]
 
[[Category: Editors]]

Revision as of 21:55, 7 April 2009

Expand: This needs expansion.

By default nano quietly adds linebreaks to the file that you're working on, not just word-wraps it for display in the editor. This can cause trouble with generating patches, and because it's indistinguishable from word-wrapping in the editor, it can take you a while to diagnose it. To prevent this from happening, when you call nano, do it with the -w flag, which will turn off auto-linebreaking:

nano -w filename

To tell nano to not wrap lines by default, add (or uncomment) this line in /etc/nanorc or ~/.nanorc:

set nowrap