[Nano-devel] linewrap bug with words longer than terminal

[Mike Frysinger]

if you have a "word" that is longer than the terminal (say 80 char terminal 
and the word is 100 chars) and line wrapping enabled, then the words after it 
don't get wrapped properly

for example, set your terminal to 80 characters, and then run:
$ perl -e "print 'a' x 100" > foo
$ echo " hi there bub" >> foo
$ nano foo

turn on line wrapping, and then with your cursor at the beginning of 
the "word" 'a', hit space ... instead of bringing down the words after the 
long string of a's, the whole line is wrapped down

if you expand the terminal to over 100 chars so you can start to see the stuff 
after the string of a's (like expand the terminal to just 105 cols), then the 
stuff after will get line wrapped properly when you start inserting 
whitespace at the beginning of the string of a's

normally i just notice this when editing config.log files and i have a 
configure option with a really long path:
--datadir=/some/really/long/path/that/scrolls/beyond/80/cols
-mike

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