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YesItsMe 11-20-2014 05:32 PM
Fixing nano's screwing up of line endings without having to learn a new editor
 
My way:

1. install joe
2. # echo 'alias nano="jpico"' >> ~/.zshrc
3. Profit!

I'm not entirely sure if there's a way to actually make nano stop wrapping a file where it doesn't fit, but my solution works surprisingly well too.

frankbell 11-20-2014 07:33 PM
Did you look at /etc/nanorc? Here's bitn (there's a lot more I didn't bother to read):

Code:
## Don't add newlines to the ends of files.
# set nonewlines

## Don't wrap text at all.
# set nowrap

.....

## Enable soft line wrapping (AKA full-line display).
# set softwrap
As an aside, I did not know there was a "nanorc" file and I don't use nano; this was a shot in the dark. I have learned, though, looking for an *rc file usually yields results.

YesItsMe 11-20-2014 07:42 PM
Oh, that's nice. Is there a similar trick to make it read German umlauts properly?

frankbell 11-20-2014 08:51 PM
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Oh, that's nice. Is there a similar trick to make it read German umlauts properly?
I have no idea, but I suspect that has more to do with the selected keyboard language than with the particular program.

This may help. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=161116

YesItsMe 11-21-2014 03:15 AM
As they're even displayed improperly on load, I doubt it's the keyboard. :/


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