Re: [Help-nano] how to make it default so that nano wraps lines at 80 columns

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016, at 15:20, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> └─[$] grep nanorc TRAIL | grep -e etc -e home
> stat("/etc/nanorc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8769, ...}) = 0
> open("/etc/nanorc", O_RDONLY)           = 3
> stat("/home/shirish/.nanorc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=55, ...}) = 0
> open("/home/shirish/.nanorc", O_RDONLY) = 3

That is how it should be, so it seems to read ~/.nanorc
allright.  Does the 'set constantshow' take effect?  Does
it show all the time the cursor position on the statusbar
as soon as you start moving it around?

> > Did you compile nano yourself?  If yes, what --prefix
> > and other options did you use?  Or are you running
> > Debian unstable?
> 
> As shared before, am running Debian testing/stretch.

But Debian testing/stretch has version 2.7.0, not 2.7.1
as your 'nano --version' showed.  So... how did you
get 2.7.1?

> > It's strange that you don't have a /usr/bin/nano, when
> > you are on a Debian system.
> 
> I just saw https://bugs.debian.org/811206

Hm.  Maybe Jordi changed things, and has done away
with the hardlink or symlink in /usr/bin.

> Aha, found the culprit, see - [...]
> 
> maybe it is -
> 
> [$] grep nowrap /etc/nanorc
> 
> set nowrap
> 
> But this is supposed to be for root, right and it is supposed to be
> superseded by .nanorc in user's profile right ?

Right.  The 'set nowrap' should be overridden by the
'set fill'...   But... it doesn't!  You have found a bug!

Bah.  What the heck.  I thought I had fixed that a
long time ago.

Do you want to report this bug yourself in Savannah?
   https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano
Or do you prefer if I do that?

Benno

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