Bug#141763: boot-floppies: Nano breaks lines when editing sources.list by hand.

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

reassign 141763 nano
merge 141763 127634
thanks

Please see #127634, etc.

p.

On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 14:12, Jesus Climent wrote:
> 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.
> 




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