Difference between revisions of "Editor: nano"
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<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 <code>/etc/nanorc</code> or <code>~/.nanorc</code>: |
| − | < | + | <source lang="text">set nowrap</source> |
| + | To convert typed tabs to spaces by default, add (or uncomment) this line in <code>/etc/nanorc</code> or <code>~/.nanorc</code>: | ||
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| + | <source lang="text">set tabstospaces</source> | ||
[[Category: Editors]] | [[Category: Editors]] | ||
Latest revision as of 22:21, 7 April 2009
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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
To convert typed tabs to spaces by default, add (or uncomment) this line in /etc/nanorc or ~/.nanorc:
set tabstospaces
