Re: [Help-nano] set fill 72 issue in Debian

[Niels ten Oever]

Dear Benno,

Thanks a lot, worked like a charm. (I should probably have done better at RTFM 
thoug ;) ).

Thanks again and all the best,

Niels

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 07:52:18PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> Hello Niels,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016, at 17:23, Niels ten Oever wrote:
> > My .nanorc looks like this (I also added this to /etc/nanorc):
> 
> (Putting it in two places is probably not a good idea.  But that
> as an aside.)
> 
> > [code]
> > syntax "mutt"
> > color green "^>.*"
> > unset nowrap
> > set fill 68
> > set tabstospaces
> > set tabsize 4
> > set smarthome
> > [/code]
> 
> From the arrangements of the settings, I get the impression that
> you seem to think that set and unset commands can be specific
> to a syntax.  They are not.  They are global.  If there are other
> "set fill" or "set nowrap" commands later in your .nanorc file,
> they willoverride the above ones.
> 
> >  Compiled options: --disable-wrapping-as-root [...]
> 
> I am assuming you are not running mutt as root?
> 
> > My current fix is calling nano in mutt with:
> > 
> > set editor="nano -w -$" 
> 
> But...  That is not a fix: -w means --nowrap, so effectively you
> are telling nano *not* to wrap, no matter what it says in
> /etc/nanorc or your .nanorc.
> 
> The best is not to try and set things in your .nanorc but set
> all the options you want in your .muttrc:
> 
> set editor="nano --fill=68 --tabstospaces --tabsize=4 --smarthome"
> 
> Does that not work?
> 
> (You may need to remove all "set fill" settings from both
> /etc/nanorc and .nanorc, because there was a small bug
> where a command-line --fill would not override a nanorc
> "set fill".  See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46492.
> It is fixed in nano-2.5.0 and later.  Yes, this wrapping/
> filling/justifying stuff is quite confusing.)
> 
> Benno
> 
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