Bug 797919

Summary:	nano-2.0.9-7.el6 : -r option does not work
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Component:	nano	Assignee:	Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version:	6.2
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Description Rex Dieter 2012-02-27 14:32:06 UTC

This version of nano has some problems: The -r option to wrap long lines at a fixed width does not work.

Confirmed version 2.2.4+ works as expected.


Additionally, there may be other problems with using nano 2.0.9 over ssh connections from Macs: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3252834?start=0&tstart=0

Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2012-03-02 13:42:55 UTC

The line wrapping is disabled by default (as requested in bug 528359).  You need to override the system default to enable line wrapping:

echo unset nowrap > ~/.nanorc