It would be much more intuitive (and less error-prone) for new users if nano defaulted to not wrapping lines on the install cd. Wrapping lines in /etc can cause quite a headache. Perhaps aliasing 'nano' to 'nano -w', or setting a global config (if such a thing exists for nano) is the correct solution. The install docs should also make specific mention of this change so that the user attempting to use nano after the install is complete is not confused. First discussed at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=21785#21785
it is a great idea
This might be an ok idea.. but the docs also clearly state to use nano -w for just that reason. I personally am against changing this as the user should really be following the docs ;) and as said once they reboot into things and it doesn't work like that anymore its a bit of a conflict IMHO
Ok with me. We just need to check that its only in the /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc on the CD so that it wont get exported to the end installed system.
I've decided to leave this as-is. -w is in the install docs.
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
