On 11/13/21 19:41, Haines Brown wrote:
> I was left frustrated when nano 4.0 dropped hard line wrap as the default.
> But I have had no luck re-implementing it. I'm running nan 5.4-2.
>
> Man nanorc says there is the set/unset nowrap. I tried unset nowrap, but
> it had no effect.
>
> How do I recover a hard wrrap at 70 in nano?

'set breaklonglines' worked in nano 5.9, can you get a newer version
through backports?

$ nano -V
GNU nano, version 5.9
(C) 1999-2011, 2013-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(C) 2014-2021 the contributors to nano
Compiled options: --disable-libmagic --enable-utf8

$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres)
Release:        5

$ apt-cache policy nano | head -n 3
nano:
Installed: 5.9-1
Candidate: 5.9-1

/Lars