Re: [Help-nano] how to make it default so that nano wraps lines at 80 columns

[shirish शिरीष]

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On 13/11/2016, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016, at 21:17, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> Hello Benno,
>>
>> First of all let me take opportunity to thank you for creating and
>> maintaining nano for so long.
>
> It was Chris who created nano, and has been maintaining
> and extending it for so many years.

Sorry for the goof-up, meant no harm.

>> It seems you took over rein somewhere in
>> Jan./Feb 2014 according to changelog.gz at /usr/share/doc/nano
>
> I have been fixing bugs since the beginning of 2014, yes,
> but I have been "given the reins" (been officially appointed
> the maintainer of GNU nano) somewhere last August, shortly
> before the release of 2.7.0.
>
>> > If you run '/bin/nano --ignore --fill=80 yourfile', does it
>> > then correctly wrap at eighty columns?
>>
>> Yes this correctly wraps at 80 columns
>
> Okay.  So there is nothing wrong with nano; it works correctly.
>
>> but then why doesn't it do it
>> with the same option in .nanorc
>
> Somehow your .nanorc is not being read?  Try running
> 'strace nano 2>TRAIL' and type ^X to exit nano.  Then
> run 'grep nanorc TRAIL | grep -e etc -e home' and paste
> what it says.

Output of the commands requested -

address@hidden - [~] - [4163]
└─[$] strace nano 2>TRAIL

Exited out of nano and then -

address@hidden - [~] - [4458]
└─[$] grep nanorc TRAIL | grep -e etc -e home
stat("/etc/nanorc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8769, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/nanorc", O_RDONLY)           = 3
stat("/home/shirish/.nanorc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=55, ...}) = 0
open("/home/shirish/.nanorc", O_RDONLY) = 3


> Did you compile nano yourself?  If yes, what --prefix
> and other options did you use?  Or are you running
> Debian unstable?

As shared before, am running Debian testing/stretch.

>> [$] type -a nano
>> nano is /bin/nano
>
> It's strange that you don't have a /usr/bin/nano, when
> you are on a Debian system.

This is what is also listed by -

address@hidden - [~] - [4466]
└─[$] dpkg -L nano | head

/.
/bin
/bin/nano
/etc
/etc/nanorc
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/nano
/usr/share/doc/nano/AUTHORS

I just saw https://bugs.debian.org/811206

I have just done hash -r and seeing if it effects what I'm seeing.

> Also, please run 'grep set /etc/nanorc' and paste that.

Aha, found the culprit, see -

└─[$] grep set /etc/nanorc

[19:48:38]
## To make sure an option is disabled, use "unset <option>".
## Other options are unset by default.
# set quiet
# set autoindent
# set backup
# set backupdir ""
# set backwards
# set boldtext
# set brackets ""')>]}"
# set casesensitive
# set constantshow
# set cut
# set fill -8
set historylog
# set justifytrim
set locking
## searches.  They cannot contain blank characters.  The former set must
## come before the latter set, and both must be in the same order.
# set matchbrackets "(<[{)>]}"
# set morespace
## mouse clicks can be used to place the cursor, set the mark (with a
# set mouse
# set multibuffer
# set noconvert
# set nohelp
# set nonewlines
set nowrap
# set operatingdir ""
# set positionlog
# set preserve
# set punct "!.?"
# set quickblank
# set quotestr "^([     ]*[#:>\|}])+"
# set quotestr "> "
# set rebinddelete
# set rebindkeypad
# set regexp
# set smarthome
# set smooth
# set softwrap
# set speller "aspell -x -c"
set suspend
# set tabsize 8
# set tabstospaces
# set tempfile
# set view
# set whitespace "»·"
# set whitespace ">."
# set wordbounds
## set, it overrides option 'set wordbounds'.
# set wordchars "<_>."
# set titlecolor brightwhite,blue
# set statuscolor brightwhite,green
# set keycolor green
# set functioncolor yellow
## to set the background color to black or white.

maybe it is -

[$] grep nowrap /etc/nanorc

set nowrap

But this is supposed to be for root, right and it is supposed to be
superseded by .nanorc in user's profile right ?

> Benno
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I will update if I get any more info.

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