From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Nano: disable hard wrapping by default
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 13:38:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8gtv44k.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fdb031d0-2cf5-852a-8ec2-f417ede94e2a@riseup.net> (swedebugia's message of "Tue, 6 Nov 2018 22:57:39 +0100")
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swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:
[...]
>
> That is what soft wrapping is for (soft wrap = on screen only, hard
> wrap = break lines with \n to fit on screen whatever the cost).
>
> Soft wrapping is supported with: --softwrap
>
> Arch/Antergos has this:
>
> $ nano -V
> GNU nano, version 3.1
> Kompileringsflaggor: --disable-wrapping-as-root --enable-utf8
>
> Gentoo warns in their wiki but compile as we do now with
> utf8. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-editors/nano
>
Good to learn something new! For editing files, I prefer soft wrapping
because of the reason mentioned before but not hard wrapping because of
the reason mentioned by Gentoo:
Important
To edit configuration files always pass nano the -w option. Without
the -w option long lines become wrapped lines. This creates problems
when saving because the lines are saved as wrapped lines instead of
how they were in the original file. Many time this will break
configuration files.
Although I do use hard wrapping when writing emails and git commit
messages in Emacs (in different modes).
> Nixpkgs uses no arguments
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/1c2d575205f7aa3fc37d64d0606e3fd33de08d74/pkgs/applications/editors/nano/default.nix
>
> Dunno with other distributions.
For Debian, 'nano -V' displays:
alexvong1995@debian:~$ nano -V
GNU nano,版本 3.1
(C) 1999-2011, 2013-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(C) 2014-2018 Nano 貢獻者
電子郵件: nano@nano-editor.org 網頁: https://nano-editor.org/
編譯選項: --disable-libmagic --disable-wrapping-as-root --enable-utf8
I think we can also go ahead with the change if many nano users think it
is a better default (even if not all distros do it).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-07 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-06 18:43 Nano: disable hard wrapping by default swedebugia
2018-11-06 18:49 ` swedebugia
2018-11-06 19:27 ` Alex Vong
2018-11-06 21:57 ` swedebugia
2018-11-07 5:38 ` Alex Vong [this message]
2018-11-07 9:19 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-11-11 8:02 ` swedebugia
2018-11-11 10:16 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-11-07 18:20 ` Leo Famulari
2018-11-11 8:04 ` swedebugia
2018-11-15 13:14 ` swedebugia
2018-11-15 20:28 ` Alex Vong
2019-03-25 19:08 ` Leo Famulari
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