Re: [Nano-devel] [patch][rfc] reenable wrapping (fwd)

[Alexey Toptygin]

Sorry if this is a duplicate message, but I haven't seen it appear in the 
archives so I'm resending.

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, David Lawrence Ramsey wrote:

> Sorry about the wait.  I've been a bit busy with 1.3.8-cvs lately.  Just
> so you know, the 1.2 branch of nano is in feature freeze, so this
> feature can't go into it, but the 1.3 branch is still open.
>
> Given that, however, the inability to unset --nowrap from the command
> line is just a symptom of a larger problem: *any* flag set inside nano
> or the .nanorc cannot be unset from the command line.  Adding a single
> command line option for one case of this isn't quite enough, and adding
> one for each case is overkill.

Yes, but currently if --disable-wrapping-as-root is set at compile time, and 
you're root, there's no way to enable wrapping on the command line or from the 
rcfile. That's what I was trying to solve, really, since distros like to ship 
nano compiled with --d-w-a-r instead of giving root a nanorc with nowrap set. 
IMO the --d-w-a-r option is misguided; root could alias nano='nano -w' or use 
nanorc, or just give -w on the command line when editing configfiles...

> Don't get me wrong; I certainly appreciate the attempt you've made, but
> I'd prefer a solution that fixes the problem as a whole.  Pico's
> solution of apparently toggling flags (i.e, "pico -w -w" leaves wrapping
> turned on) is probably the direction nano needs to go, but I'm not sure
> how it should interact with the rcfile options or those options that set
> other options (e.g. --restricted).  If you have any ideas how, or a
> better solution, let me know.  Thanks.

Well, I'll think about it some more. IMO, the toggling could be very confusing.

                        Alexey