Re: Nano: disable hard wrapping by default

[swedebugia]

Hi

On 2018-11-06 20:27, Alex Vong wrote:
> swedebugia <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 2018-11-06 19:43, swedebugia wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I stumpled on this hard-wrapping default behavior when editing
> > > .bash_profile on GuixSD
> > >
> > > It is super annoying.
> > >
> > > Could we disable it by default?
> > >
> > > According to the FAQ this exist:
> > >
> > > "With --disable-wrapping-as-root you can disable any hard-wrapping
> > > by default when the user is root, useful to prevent accidentally
> > > changing long lines in system configuration files."
> > >
> > > "  --disable-wrapping      Disable all hard-wrapping of text"
> > >
> > > We only compile with this:
> > >
> > > address@hidden ~$ nano -V
> > >
> > >   GNU nano, version 2.9.8
> > >
> > > snip
> > >
> > >   Compiled options: --enable-utf8
> > We could do this also by adding the following to our core ~.bashrc
> >
> > alias nano="nano --nowrap"
> I don't use nano. But I think usually we want to stick with the default
> provided by upstream. Also, do you know how other distros handle this?
> Debian does disable wrapping by default. I think we can change it if
> many distros agree that the more sensible default is to disable
> wrapping.
>
> Personally though, I prefer wrapping because I can read all the text at
> once. I like to see the "whole picture" at once :)

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

Nixpkgs uses no arguments 
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/1c2d575205f7aa3fc37d64d0606e3fd33de08d74/pkgs/applications/editors/nano/default.nix

Dunno with other distributions.

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Cheers
Swedebugia