On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:54:55PM +0200, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: > Package: boot-floppies > Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-08 > Severity: normal > > > When installing woody and choosed to edit sources.list by hand, if the > line is too long, nano break it in two lines, making the sources.list > unusable. We must to go at the beginning of the second line then make a > backspace, a return then a backspace another time to get an unique line. > > It's always the case with the complete proposed-updateis line on a > "standard" screen. > > deb htt://http.us.debian.org/debian woody-proposed-updates main contrib > non-free > > Suggest: another editor..., patching nano, have a screen that explain > the problem.
from nano's man page:
-w (--nowrap)
Disable wrapping of long lines.
Jesse
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