On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

2008/9/28 Roman Kyrylych :

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2008/9/4 Aaron Griffin :

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On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Eduardo Romero wrote:

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On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 14:57 +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:

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I have disabled all line wrapping to prevent broken config files like this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11290

-Please signoff (also ncurses related)

-Andy Just a thought, and I hope is not too late. Wouldn't it be better to make the installer use 'nano -w' instead of just 'nano'? We have just removed a functionality from the nano package by disabling line wrapping from the package itself. Also, I'm having a hard time getting used to not type, 'nano -w' when I want to edit a file, that command just doesn't work anymore.

I apparently had line wrapping turned on in my /etc/nanorc too that yelled at me. I kinda agree with Eduardo here. Maybe we should re-enable this.

There's a bug about missing -w in installer: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11468 So should we add -w to installer and re-enable word-wrapping in nano, or should I close this bugreport as "Fixed" now?

I've just closed it as a duplicate of http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11290 but still the proper fix would be to use nano -w in installer instead of disabling -w in nano, IMO.

Or maybe we should use "wrap" in the default nanorc?

Andreas Radke wrote:

Am Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:42:37 -0500 schrieb "Aaron Griffin" :

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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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2008/9/28 Roman Kyrylych :

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2008/9/4 Aaron Griffin :

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On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Eduardo Romero wrote:

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On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 14:57 +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:

> I have disabled all line wrapping to prevent broken config > files like this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11290 > > -Please signoff (also ncurses related) > > -Andy > Just a thought, and I hope is not too late. Wouldn't it be better to make the installer use 'nano -w' instead of just 'nano'? We have just removed a functionality from the nano package by disabling line wrapping from the package itself. Also, I'm having a hard time getting used to not type, 'nano -w' when I want to edit a file, that command just doesn't work anymore.

I apparently had line wrapping turned on in my /etc/nanorc too that yelled at me. I kinda agree with Eduardo here. Maybe we should re-enable this.

There's a bug about missing -w in installer: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11468 So should we add -w to installer and re-enable word-wrapping in nano, or should I close this bugreport as "Fixed" now?

I've just closed it as a duplicate of http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11290 but still the proper fix would be to use nano -w in installer instead of disabling -w in nano, IMO.

Or maybe we should use "wrap" in the default nanorc?

woohoo. such a small editor making so much noise with only one option.

i prefer to not touch the upstream nanorc we install. after many requests i followed Fedora and many other major distributions and disabled the line wrapping completely via configure.

i don't know any good situation when line wrapping is useful expect in writing mails. but who is using nano for that task? (i guess alpine users go with pico).

so why do some people want that wrapping back?

i think a small note about no line wrapping in our installer when it shows the choise for vi/nano is much more than needed.

-Andy

Sorry, I didn't see this email by the time I replied to the other. But well, is simple, why take functionality from a package? We are supposed to be as close to upstream as possible, and well, some users do use the feature, we cannot conclude nobody use the feature. You know users of all kinds can have weird uses for common applications. Not that this nano usage is weird, but you get it. Using nano -w in the installer was the recommended procedure by the original bug reporter.

Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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2008/9/28 Roman Kyrylych :

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2008/9/4 Aaron Griffin :

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On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Eduardo Romero wrote:

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On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 14:57 +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:

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I have disabled all line wrapping to prevent broken config files like this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11290

-Please signoff (also ncurses related)

-Andy

Just a thought, and I hope is not too late. Wouldn't it be better to make the installer use 'nano -w' instead of just 'nano'? We have just removed a functionality from the nano package by disabling line wrapping from the package itself. Also, I'm having a hard time getting used to not type, 'nano -w' when I want to edit a file, that command just doesn't work anymore.

I apparently had line wrapping turned on in my /etc/nanorc too that yelled at me. I kinda agree with Eduardo here. Maybe we should re-enable this.

There's a bug about missing -w in installer: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11468 So should we add -w to installer and re-enable word-wrapping in nano, or should I close this bugreport as "Fixed" now?

I've just closed it as a duplicate of http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11290 but still the proper fix would be to use nano -w in installer instead of disabling -w in nano, IMO.

Or maybe we should use "wrap" in the default nanorc?

OK with me.