Re: [Nano-devel] [patch][rfc] reenable wrapping

[David Lawrence Ramsey]

Alexey Toptygin wrote:

> I've gotten exactly zero replies about the previous incarnation of
> this patch, but I love you anyway, so here's an updated version. It is
> cleaned up some, doesn't patch the generated nano.1.html and nano.info
> files, and now exists for both 1.2.5 and 1.3.8. You can find it
> attached, or at:
>
> http://alexeyt.freeshell.org/code/patch-nano-1.2.5-reenable-wrap
> http://alexeyt.freeshell.org/code/patch-nano-1.3.8-reenable-wrap
>
>             Alexey

Sorry about the wait.  I've been a bit busy with 1.3.8-cvs lately.  Just
so you know, the 1.2 branch of nano is in feature freeze, so this
feature can't go into it, but the 1.3 branch is still open.

Given that, however, the inability to unset --nowrap from the command
line is just a symptom of a larger problem: *any* flag set inside nano
or the .nanorc cannot be unset from the command line.  Adding a single
command line option for one case of this isn't quite enough, and adding
one for each case is overkill.

Don't get me wrong; I certainly appreciate the attempt you've made, but
I'd prefer a solution that fixes the problem as a whole.  Pico's
solution of apparently toggling flags (i.e, "pico -w -w" leaves wrapping
turned on) is probably the direction nano needs to go, but I'm not sure
how it should interact with the rcfile options or those options that set
other options (e.g. --restricted).  If you have any ideas how, or a
better solution, let me know.  Thanks.