Re: [Nano-devel] [RFC] is it time to break free from the Pico defaults

[Dan Mahoney (Gushi)]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Benno Schulenberg wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Pico was meant as an editor for text, for emails, and as such
> has a line-wrapping behavior that is suitable for that.  But
> nano...  I am guessing that it gets used mainly as an editor
> of config files, or other files that do not like being hard-
> wrapped (at the edge of the screen minus eight columns).
>
> It is long ago that nano was meant as a libre replacement of
> Pico.  Since then I think nano has become an editor in its
> own right, with features like syntax coloring, line numbers,
> undo/redo, and selecting text by holding Shift, all of which
> Pico does not offer.  So... I am guessing that many people
> who use nano do not want it to behave by default just like
> Pico, they would prefer nano to have "saner" defaults.
>
> What are your opinions on this?

I'd love to see a "soft wrap" feature in nano, personally -- perhaps where 
the first column could be used to see real hard-lines or not.

I'd also love to see some sort of hard-linked alias to nano like "wnano" 
which emulates "nano -w" in cases like defining $EDITOR where it must be a 
binary that exists.

-Dan

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