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

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 18:53:15 EDT 2008


2008/9/29 Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de>:
> 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.

ok

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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