Hi
On 2018-11-06 20:27, Alex Vong wrote:
swedebugia <swedebu...@riseup.net> 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:
sdb@komputilo ~$ 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.
--
Cheers
Swedebugia
