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fawx

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 8

Word wrap in nano does not work.

Hello, I am trying to word wrap in nano the way it does in notepad and gedit (new line once you reach the edge of the screen/window). However, when I try nano -w rick.sh it give me the help screen and I see that -w is not an option. When I use set nowrap in the ~/.nanorc it says nowrap isn't recongized, also, -r <y> fails to work as well. What should I do?

Last edited by fawx (2008-10-15 01:34:45)

fawx

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 8

Re: Word wrap in nano does not work.

Please help?

arlite

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From: .de

Registered: 2008-05-02

Posts: 31

Re: Word wrap in nano does not work.

The reason might be the configure-parameter "--disable-wrapping" in nano's PKGBUILD. I would try this: get the PKGBUILD, remove the parameter, run makepkg. If makepkg finishes successfully, remove the nano-packages installed from repository and replace with the new created package.

ssjlegendx

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Registered: 2008-01-01

Posts: 94

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Re: Word wrap in nano does not work.

Take a look at this thread.

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