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Re: [Nano-devel] DOS/Mac text conversion
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Dwayne Rightler |
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Re: [Nano-devel] DOS/Mac text conversion |
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Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:02:24 -0500 (CDT) |
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I don't know what shell you use, but for bash you could always do
something like:
alias nano-dos='nano -D'
That would solve your problem as long as you could remember to use the
nano-dos command instead of nano when editing win32 text files.
-Dwayne
Bill Soudan said:
>
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 23:03, Rocco Corsi wrote:
>> Using the "--noconvert" can be configured in the ~/.nanorc configuration
>> file. See "man nanorc"
>>
>> (e.g. set noconvert)
>>
>> This appears to be available in version 1.2.3, so it shouldn't be a
>> problem for you. Not 100% sure where the file should be in Cygwin, I
>> assume you are using Cygwin.
>
> I did try noconvert. It didn't do what I (and I guess everyone else)
> expected -- it seems to mean 'don't even convert the file from DOS
> format to UNIX format before I load it into the buffer, so now there's
> carriage returns at the end of each line'.
>
> An example:
>
> $ unix2dos someFile.txt
> $ nano --noconvert someFile.txt
>
> (buffer reads)
> aoeu^M
> aoeu^M
> aoeu^M
> aoeu^M
> ^M
>
> I'm using Fedora Core 2. Maybe the bug here then is noconvert is
> broken?
>
> Bill
>
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Re: [Nano-devel] DOS/Mac text conversion, Mike Frysinger, 2004/10/01