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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