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[Help-nano] command-line override of options set in .nanorc?


From: Mike Brown
Subject: [Help-nano] command-line override of options set in .nanorc?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:15:01 -0600 (MDT)

I usually want autoindent turned on, so my .nanorc has "set autoindent",
among many other customizations.

However, every once in a while, I need to copy-paste something that's 
preformatted, so it would be nice to be able to just override this one
setting when I invoke nano.

I was hoping there would be a command-line way to unset options that were set 
in the .nanorc. For example, for the single-letter options, you could use 
"-+" instead of "-", like in less(1):

  nano -+i

For the long option names, you would use an "unset" prefix:

  nano --unset-autoindent

There's no such capability, though, unless I'm missing something.
Is it possible? Maybe consider this a feature request.

(I realize I could remove the "set autoindent" from my .nanorc and instead
add -i or --autoindent to the command-line options, but it seems like the 
.nanorc is the ideal location for the things you want to be the defaults
most of the time, so I want to keep the autoindent set in there.)

Thanks for listening.



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