Re: Nano: disable hard wrapping by default

[swedebugia]

On 2018-11-07 10:19, Thorsten Wilms wrote:

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> Ubuntu is also in the --disable-wrapping-as-root flag club.
>
> A potential reason against joining would be if there's a real need for 
> the default behavior (no --disable-wrapping-as-root, no -w) and it being 
> hard to achieve with the flag. 

I can think of no such need. Could we add --disable-wrapping-as-root and 
advise the user in the specification to create his own package inherited 
from nano instead?

If a valid need does surface we can discuss changing the default.

> It looks like the option to use would be:
>
> -r number, --fill=number
> Hard-wrap  lines at column number.  If this value is 0 or less, wrapping 
> will occur at the width of the screen less number columns, allowing the 
> wrap point to vary along with the width of the screen  if  the screen is 
> resized.  The default value is -8.  This option conflicts with -w 
> (--nowrap) -- the last one given takes effect.

If I understand you correctly adding this as root would reenable the -w 
behavior?

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Swedebugia