[Nano-devel] RFC: should nano stay alive on anorexic terminals?

[Benno Schulenberg]

I'd never noticed, because for some reason Gnome-Terminal cannot be
made narrower than 19 columns, but when a virtual terminal becomes
narrower than four columns, nano crashes -- it dies deliberately,
possibly leaving an annoying .save and .swp fille lying around.

Other console editors don't die when the terminal gets very narrow:
Vim and Emacs and joe all stay alive.  Vim and joe continue outputting
to the screen always; Emacs stops doing that when the terminal is
narrower than six columns.

What should nano do?

Benno

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