How do I make nano act like vi when it comes to text wrapping?












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When using vi and long lines, the text are wrap but vi doesn't insert a CR/LF at the end of the line. With nano, if I start typing and the line becomes too long, it will insert CR/LF at the end of the line.



How can I make nano behave like vi when it becomes to this feature?






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    When using vi and long lines, the text are wrap but vi doesn't insert a CR/LF at the end of the line. With nano, if I start typing and the line becomes too long, it will insert CR/LF at the end of the line.



    How can I make nano behave like vi when it becomes to this feature?






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      When using vi and long lines, the text are wrap but vi doesn't insert a CR/LF at the end of the line. With nano, if I start typing and the line becomes too long, it will insert CR/LF at the end of the line.



      How can I make nano behave like vi when it becomes to this feature?






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      When using vi and long lines, the text are wrap but vi doesn't insert a CR/LF at the end of the line. With nano, if I start typing and the line becomes too long, it will insert CR/LF at the end of the line.



      How can I make nano behave like vi when it becomes to this feature?






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          Both nano and (most implementations of) vi have an optional line wrapping feature, where they replace the previous space by a line break¹ when the line becomes longer than a certain length. They behave differently when the cursor isn't at the end of the line, but it's fundamentally the same feature.



          To disable this feature in nano, press Alt+L. In nvi, set wraplen and wrapmagin to 0 (:set wl=0 wm=0).



          Vim also has a number of more advanced wrapping features which nano doesn't have an equivalent for.



          If a line is too wide for the terminal, vi shows it wrapped by the terminal. Nano doesn't, you need to scroll left and right. If that's what you meant by “act like vi”, you're out of luck.



          ¹ Not a CR/LF. CR/LF is the encoding of line breaks on Windows. On Unix, a line break is encoded as LF.






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          • yes, I meant the scrolling left/right to see the contents if the line is too long for the terminal window. On vi, it wraps around (but no line breaks).
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          https://askubuntu.com/questions/13317/how-to-stop-gedit-gvim-vim-nano-from-adding-end-of-file-newline-char



          answered by @Marco Ceppi:




          Nano Install Nano is a little easier. You can launch nano with the -L
          flag (or --nonewlines if you're more the visual type). This will
          disable the automatic addition of the newline to the end of the file
          (so long as one was not actually entered). Ideally you could setup
          this alias in your ~/.bashrc: alias nanon=nano -L which would launch
          Nano with the no newlines flag included in it.







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



            set nowrap


            And uncomment line



            set softwrap


            Hope it helps.






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            • Note: This only works for nano 2 and not nano 3. Since nano 2, set nowrap no longer disables all wrapping, only hardwrapping, which is what the asker wants. And nano 3 will ignore set softwrap and continue to hardwrap if set nowrap isn't added. So add both set nowrap and set softwrap for textwrapping that doesn't break your files.
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            The wrapping behavior of nano 1, nano 2, and nano 3 differs.



            On nano 1, you only have the set nowrap setting which disables all wrapping.



            On nano 2, set softwrap enables softwrapping and disables hardwrapping.



            On nano 3, set softwrap is ignored and nano continues to hardwrap unless you also set set nowrap.



            So if you want text wrapping for long lines that doesn't break your configuration files (softwrapping only), this works for versions 2 and 3: ~/.nanorc



            set nowrap
            
set softwrap




            share








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              Both nano and (most implementations of) vi have an optional line wrapping feature, where they replace the previous space by a line break¹ when the line becomes longer than a certain length. They behave differently when the cursor isn't at the end of the line, but it's fundamentally the same feature.



              To disable this feature in nano, press Alt+L. In nvi, set wraplen and wrapmagin to 0 (:set wl=0 wm=0).



              Vim also has a number of more advanced wrapping features which nano doesn't have an equivalent for.



              If a line is too wide for the terminal, vi shows it wrapped by the terminal. Nano doesn't, you need to scroll left and right. If that's what you meant by “act like vi”, you're out of luck.



              ¹ Not a CR/LF. CR/LF is the encoding of line breaks on Windows. On Unix, a line break is encoded as LF.






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              • yes, I meant the scrolling left/right to see the contents if the line is too long for the terminal window. On vi, it wraps around (but no line breaks).
                – mrjayviper
                Sep 6 '17 at 0:49
















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              Both nano and (most implementations of) vi have an optional line wrapping feature, where they replace the previous space by a line break¹ when the line becomes longer than a certain length. They behave differently when the cursor isn't at the end of the line, but it's fundamentally the same feature.



              To disable this feature in nano, press Alt+L. In nvi, set wraplen and wrapmagin to 0 (:set wl=0 wm=0).



              Vim also has a number of more advanced wrapping features which nano doesn't have an equivalent for.



              If a line is too wide for the terminal, vi shows it wrapped by the terminal. Nano doesn't, you need to scroll left and right. If that's what you meant by “act like vi”, you're out of luck.



              ¹ Not a CR/LF. CR/LF is the encoding of line breaks on Windows. On Unix, a line break is encoded as LF.






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              • yes, I meant the scrolling left/right to see the contents if the line is too long for the terminal window. On vi, it wraps around (but no line breaks).
                – mrjayviper
                Sep 6 '17 at 0:49














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              Both nano and (most implementations of) vi have an optional line wrapping feature, where they replace the previous space by a line break¹ when the line becomes longer than a certain length. They behave differently when the cursor isn't at the end of the line, but it's fundamentally the same feature.



              To disable this feature in nano, press Alt+L. In nvi, set wraplen and wrapmagin to 0 (:set wl=0 wm=0).



              Vim also has a number of more advanced wrapping features which nano doesn't have an equivalent for.



              If a line is too wide for the terminal, vi shows it wrapped by the terminal. Nano doesn't, you need to scroll left and right. If that's what you meant by “act like vi”, you're out of luck.



              ¹ Not a CR/LF. CR/LF is the encoding of line breaks on Windows. On Unix, a line break is encoded as LF.






              share|improve this answer












              Both nano and (most implementations of) vi have an optional line wrapping feature, where they replace the previous space by a line break¹ when the line becomes longer than a certain length. They behave differently when the cursor isn't at the end of the line, but it's fundamentally the same feature.



              To disable this feature in nano, press Alt+L. In nvi, set wraplen and wrapmagin to 0 (:set wl=0 wm=0).



              Vim also has a number of more advanced wrapping features which nano doesn't have an equivalent for.



              If a line is too wide for the terminal, vi shows it wrapped by the terminal. Nano doesn't, you need to scroll left and right. If that's what you meant by “act like vi”, you're out of luck.



              ¹ Not a CR/LF. CR/LF is the encoding of line breaks on Windows. On Unix, a line break is encoded as LF.







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              • yes, I meant the scrolling left/right to see the contents if the line is too long for the terminal window. On vi, it wraps around (but no line breaks).
                – mrjayviper
                Sep 6 '17 at 0:49


















              • yes, I meant the scrolling left/right to see the contents if the line is too long for the terminal window. On vi, it wraps around (but no line breaks).
                – mrjayviper
                Sep 6 '17 at 0:49
















              yes, I meant the scrolling left/right to see the contents if the line is too long for the terminal window. On vi, it wraps around (but no line breaks).
              – mrjayviper
              Sep 6 '17 at 0:49




              yes, I meant the scrolling left/right to see the contents if the line is too long for the terminal window. On vi, it wraps around (but no line breaks).
              – mrjayviper
              Sep 6 '17 at 0:49













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              https://askubuntu.com/questions/13317/how-to-stop-gedit-gvim-vim-nano-from-adding-end-of-file-newline-char



              answered by @Marco Ceppi:




              Nano Install Nano is a little easier. You can launch nano with the -L
              flag (or --nonewlines if you're more the visual type). This will
              disable the automatic addition of the newline to the end of the file
              (so long as one was not actually entered). Ideally you could setup
              this alias in your ~/.bashrc: alias nanon=nano -L which would launch
              Nano with the no newlines flag included in it.







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                https://askubuntu.com/questions/13317/how-to-stop-gedit-gvim-vim-nano-from-adding-end-of-file-newline-char



                answered by @Marco Ceppi:




                Nano Install Nano is a little easier. You can launch nano with the -L
                flag (or --nonewlines if you're more the visual type). This will
                disable the automatic addition of the newline to the end of the file
                (so long as one was not actually entered). Ideally you could setup
                this alias in your ~/.bashrc: alias nanon=nano -L which would launch
                Nano with the no newlines flag included in it.







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                  https://askubuntu.com/questions/13317/how-to-stop-gedit-gvim-vim-nano-from-adding-end-of-file-newline-char



                  answered by @Marco Ceppi:




                  Nano Install Nano is a little easier. You can launch nano with the -L
                  flag (or --nonewlines if you're more the visual type). This will
                  disable the automatic addition of the newline to the end of the file
                  (so long as one was not actually entered). Ideally you could setup
                  this alias in your ~/.bashrc: alias nanon=nano -L which would launch
                  Nano with the no newlines flag included in it.







                  share|improve this answer












                  https://askubuntu.com/questions/13317/how-to-stop-gedit-gvim-vim-nano-from-adding-end-of-file-newline-char



                  answered by @Marco Ceppi:




                  Nano Install Nano is a little easier. You can launch nano with the -L
                  flag (or --nonewlines if you're more the visual type). This will
                  disable the automatic addition of the newline to the end of the file
                  (so long as one was not actually entered). Ideally you could setup
                  this alias in your ~/.bashrc: alias nanon=nano -L which would launch
                  Nano with the no newlines flag included in it.








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



                      set nowrap


                      And uncomment line



                      set softwrap


                      Hope it helps.






                      share|improve this answer























                      • Note: This only works for nano 2 and not nano 3. Since nano 2, set nowrap no longer disables all wrapping, only hardwrapping, which is what the asker wants. And nano 3 will ignore set softwrap and continue to hardwrap if set nowrap isn't added. So add both set nowrap and set softwrap for textwrapping that doesn't break your files.
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                        4 mins ago


















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



                      set nowrap


                      And uncomment line



                      set softwrap


                      Hope it helps.






                      share|improve this answer























                      • Note: This only works for nano 2 and not nano 3. Since nano 2, set nowrap no longer disables all wrapping, only hardwrapping, which is what the asker wants. And nano 3 will ignore set softwrap and continue to hardwrap if set nowrap isn't added. So add both set nowrap and set softwrap for textwrapping that doesn't break your files.
                        – x0a
                        4 mins ago
















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



                      set nowrap


                      And uncomment line



                      set softwrap


                      Hope it helps.






                      share|improve this answer














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



                      set nowrap


                      And uncomment line



                      set softwrap


                      Hope it helps.







                      share|improve this answer














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                      • Note: This only works for nano 2 and not nano 3. Since nano 2, set nowrap no longer disables all wrapping, only hardwrapping, which is what the asker wants. And nano 3 will ignore set softwrap and continue to hardwrap if set nowrap isn't added. So add both set nowrap and set softwrap for textwrapping that doesn't break your files.
                        – x0a
                        4 mins ago




















                      • Note: This only works for nano 2 and not nano 3. Since nano 2, set nowrap no longer disables all wrapping, only hardwrapping, which is what the asker wants. And nano 3 will ignore set softwrap and continue to hardwrap if set nowrap isn't added. So add both set nowrap and set softwrap for textwrapping that doesn't break your files.
                        – x0a
                        4 mins ago


















                      Note: This only works for nano 2 and not nano 3. Since nano 2, set nowrap no longer disables all wrapping, only hardwrapping, which is what the asker wants. And nano 3 will ignore set softwrap and continue to hardwrap if set nowrap isn't added. So add both set nowrap and set softwrap for textwrapping that doesn't break your files.
                      – x0a
                      4 mins ago






                      Note: This only works for nano 2 and not nano 3. Since nano 2, set nowrap no longer disables all wrapping, only hardwrapping, which is what the asker wants. And nano 3 will ignore set softwrap and continue to hardwrap if set nowrap isn't added. So add both set nowrap and set softwrap for textwrapping that doesn't break your files.
                      – x0a
                      4 mins ago













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                      The wrapping behavior of nano 1, nano 2, and nano 3 differs.



                      On nano 1, you only have the set nowrap setting which disables all wrapping.



                      On nano 2, set softwrap enables softwrapping and disables hardwrapping.



                      On nano 3, set softwrap is ignored and nano continues to hardwrap unless you also set set nowrap.



                      So if you want text wrapping for long lines that doesn't break your configuration files (softwrapping only), this works for versions 2 and 3: ~/.nanorc



                      set nowrap
                      
set softwrap




                      share








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                      x0a is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
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                        The wrapping behavior of nano 1, nano 2, and nano 3 differs.



                        On nano 1, you only have the set nowrap setting which disables all wrapping.



                        On nano 2, set softwrap enables softwrapping and disables hardwrapping.



                        On nano 3, set softwrap is ignored and nano continues to hardwrap unless you also set set nowrap.



                        So if you want text wrapping for long lines that doesn't break your configuration files (softwrapping only), this works for versions 2 and 3: ~/.nanorc



                        set nowrap
                        
set softwrap




                        share








                        New contributor




                        x0a is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
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                          The wrapping behavior of nano 1, nano 2, and nano 3 differs.



                          On nano 1, you only have the set nowrap setting which disables all wrapping.



                          On nano 2, set softwrap enables softwrapping and disables hardwrapping.



                          On nano 3, set softwrap is ignored and nano continues to hardwrap unless you also set set nowrap.



                          So if you want text wrapping for long lines that doesn't break your configuration files (softwrapping only), this works for versions 2 and 3: ~/.nanorc



                          set nowrap
                          
set softwrap




                          share








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                          x0a is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
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                          The wrapping behavior of nano 1, nano 2, and nano 3 differs.



                          On nano 1, you only have the set nowrap setting which disables all wrapping.



                          On nano 2, set softwrap enables softwrapping and disables hardwrapping.



                          On nano 3, set softwrap is ignored and nano continues to hardwrap unless you also set set nowrap.



                          So if you want text wrapping for long lines that doesn't break your configuration files (softwrapping only), this works for versions 2 and 3: ~/.nanorc



                          set nowrap
                          
set softwrap





                          share








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