line wrapping in nano editor

[Király]

Hello,

I'm trying to use the nano editor on my new iMac with 10.6.4. I can't
figure out how to get it to wrap long lines. I have tried what the man
page says to do to set nano to wrap long lines and nothing seems to work;
typing just contunies past the 80 columns of my Terminal window. I
didn't have this problem with 10.5.8.

Help, anyone?

--
K.

Lang may your lum reek.

[isw]

In article <KlV7o.10908$z%6.479@edtnps83>,
m...@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) wrote:

Alternate suggestion: Get "TextWrangler" which is a very nice modern
"programmer's editor" and is free. It does word wrapping plus a whole
lot more. When you install it, there's an option to tell it to become
the default editor from Terminal, so when you type "edit foo" in
Terminal, "foo" opens in TextWrangler.

Isaac

[Bob Harris]

In article <isw-3FF2F7.10452809082010@[216.168.3.50]>,
isw <i...@witzend.com> wrote:

Also look at Fraise (a Smultron successor) - Snow Leopard or newer
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24012>

It is much easier to open hidden files than TextWrangler.
Fraise -> File -> Open Hidden...

TextWrangler is a very good GUI text editor. I've used it for
years.

[nospam]

In article
<nospam.News.Bob-9D589A.20075709082010@reserved-multicast-range-NOT-dele
gated.example.com>, Bob Harris <nospam....@remove.Smith-Harris.us>
wrote:

> Also look at Fraise (a Smultron successor) - Snow Leopard or newer
> <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24012>
>
> It is much easier to open hidden files than TextWrangler.
> Fraise -> File -> Open Hidden...

how is that much easier than file->open hidden... in textwrangler?

> TextWrangler is a very good GUI text editor. I've used it for
> years.

it's fantastic, especially considering it's free.

[Kiraly]

On Aug 9, 10:45 am, isw <i...@witzend.com> wrote:
> Alternate suggestion: Get "TextWrangler" which is a very nice modern
> "programmer's editor" and is free. It does word wrapping plus a whole
> lot more. When you install it, there's an option to tell it to become
> the default editor from Terminal, so when you type "edit foo" in
> Terminal, "foo" opens in TextWrangler.

The reason I want to fix nano is because I use it with tin to post to
Usenet. If I have to abandon nano and learn a new editor, I might as
well just abandon tin and learn a new newsreader. tin and nano are
like an old pair of slippers for me - ragged but oh so comfy.

[Király]

In article <vilain-78BBD3....@news.individual.net>,
Michael Vilain <vil...@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> It's time to get new slippers.

I think you are right. Coincidentally, yesterday my ISP seems to have
dropped USENET, making my news-server-compiled-into-the-binary copy of
tin less than useful. I got an account with Eternal September and will
start learning MT-Newswatcher.

[Bob Harris]

In article
<nospam.News.Bob-9D589A.20075709082010@reserved-multicast-range-NO
T-delegated.example.com>,
Bob Harris <nospam....@remove.Smith-Harris.us> wrote:

Because TextWrangler requires
TextWrangler -> File -> Open Hidden...
Then you have to remember to check the [X] Show Hidden items
And you have to change Enable: to "Everything"

Or at least that is what I had to do, and this is a pain to
explain to an inexperienced user that is afraid of nano, vi, Vim,
emacs, etc...

Fraise just requires the Fraise (or Smultron) -> File -> Open
Hidden... and not extra dialog box explanations.

Besides that, I like TextWrangler.

[Király]

I finally figured it out. I had to make a .nanorc file with the
following two lines:

unset nowrap
set fill -8

That was it. My ISP has also fired back up their newsserver so I have
tin back too. Feet back in old slippers.

[prashant...@gmail.com]

Open the nanorc generally at ~/.nanorc or /etc/nanorc, comment out the line

set nowrap
And uncomment line

set softwrap
Hope it helps.

[prashant...@gmail.com]

On Monday, August 9, 2010 at 9:12:34 PM UTC+5:30, Király wrote:

[prashant...@gmail.com]

On Monday, August 9, 2010 at 9:12:34 PM UTC+5:30, Király wrote:

[Wolffan]

On 24 Aug 2018, prashant...@gmail.com wrote
(in article<5beb6e19-7f21-4670...@googlegroups.com>):

Why did you elect to zombiefy a necrothread from 2010, and to do it _three
times_?

[Király]

prashant...@gmail.com wrote:
> Open the nanorc generally at ~/.nanorc or /etc/nanorc, comment out the line
>
> set nowrap
> And uncomment line
>
> set softwrap
> Hope it helps.

Thanks man, I appreciate you answering my question, that's been bugging
me for 8 years.

--
K.

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