[arch-dev-public] nano -w (was: Re: [signoff] nano 2.0.8-1)

[Eduardo Romero]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Roman Kyrylych
> <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 2008/9/28 Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
>>     
>>> 2008/9/4 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
>>>       
>>>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Eduardo Romero <k3nsai at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> 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?
>   
OK with me.