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Revision as of 21:41, 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
You may want to make this a default by aliasing the command:
echo 'alias nano="nano -w"' >> ~/.bashrc
Now, whenever you run 'nano', it'll run 'nano -w' instead.
