Comments on: Edgy and nano: You mean nano -w, don’t you? http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/edgy-and-nano-you-mean-nano-w-dont-you/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: kmandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/edgy-and-nano-you-mean-nano-w-dont-you/#comment-152 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:31:48 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/edgy-and-nano-you-mean-nano-w-dont-you/#comment-152 I guess I could. It seems like one of those small habits that is worth adopting anyway, if only because it’s probably good for me.

]]> By: dosnlinux http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/edgy-and-nano-you-mean-nano-w-dont-you/#comment-151 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:27:56 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/edgy-and-nano-you-mean-nano-w-dont-you/#comment-151 Why not just make an alias?

]]> By: kmandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/edgy-and-nano-you-mean-nano-w-dont-you/#comment-150 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:09:49 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/edgy-and-nano-you-mean-nano-w-dont-you/#comment-150 Sorry, I should have been more precise. It seems nano under Edgy (and I only say that because I didn’t seem to have this problem in Dapper or Breezy) defaults to wrap lines that extend past the right-hand screen border. As soon as you break a line with a new space, nano shifts down to the next line, sort of like a word processor would — that’s the “hideous arc.”

The problem is, if you write out the file like that, it doesn’t re-concatenate those lines. So something like, for example, an fstab file (which is very long and clumsy now that the UUID numbers are part of it) that needs to be a long straight sequence to be read properly, becomes clipped or just built wrong.

The -w option prevents nano from wrapping, and avoids miswriting those files when you’re editing them. A minor change, and probably not worth all the fuss I made over it. :)

]]> By: William T. Foxtrot http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/edgy-and-nano-you-mean-nano-w-dont-you/#comment-149 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:03:33 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/edgy-and-nano-you-mean-nano-w-dont-you/#comment-149 I’m confused. . . what exactly is the problem with just using nano? What do you mean by “hideous arcs”?

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