Lucien Cartier-Tilet
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The index page now immediately lists all the pages that can be found on my website. This commit also deprecates my Nano config.
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#+TITLE: Nano configuration (Deprecated)
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#+setupfile: headers
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#+OPTIONS: auto-id:t
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#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <meta name="description" content="Phundrak's nano configuration" />
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#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <meta property="og:title" content="Phundrak's nano configuration" />
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#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <meta property="og:description" content="Description of the nano configuration of Phundrak" />
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#+PROPERTY: header-args :tangle ~/.config/nano/nanorc
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* Introduction
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: Introduction-7e535842
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:END: *Before proceeding, be aware that I deprecated this nano config on August
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28th, 2020, meaning I won’t update it anymore unless I use it again some day
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in the future. I will keep it on my website though.*
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I nowadays rarely use Nano as a text editor, since I mainly rely on Emacs for
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all sorts of tasks, including quick file editing. However, at times, Emacs
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won’t work or won’t be available, and I therefore need a lightweight, fast and
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reliable text editor: Nano. And despite Nano being a simple piece of software,
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it does offer some customization I cannot refuse. Here is how I configured it:
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* Configuration
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: Configuration-b55668a7
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:END:
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When saving a file, create a backup file by adding a tilde (=~=) to the file's
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name. And make and keep not just one backup file, but make and keep a uniquely
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numbered one every time a file is saved — when backups are enabled with =set
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backup= or =--backup= or =-B=. The uniquely numbered files are stored in the
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directory =~/.cache/nano/backups/=.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set backup
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set backupdir /home/phundrak/.cache/nano/backups/
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#+END_SRC
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Save a file by default in Unix format. This overrides nano's default behavior
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of saving a file in the format that it had. (This option has no effect when
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you also use =set noconvert=.)
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set unix
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#+END_SRC
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** Keys behavior
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: Configuration-Keys_behavior-c665fa36
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:END:
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Make the Home key smarter. When Home is pressed anywhere but at the very
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beginning of non-whitespace characters on a line, the cursor will jump to
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that beginning (either forwards or backwards). If the cursor is already at
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that position, it will jump to the true beginning of the line.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set smarthome
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#+END_SRC
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** Search
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: Configuration-Search-6e458076
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:END:
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Do case-unsensitive searches by default.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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unset casesensitive
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#+END_SRC
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Do regular-expression searches by default. Regular expressions in =nano= are
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of the extended type (ERE).
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set regexp
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#+END_SRC
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** Visual settings
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: Configuration-Visual_settings-9952f2ae
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:END:
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Use bold instead of reverse video for the title bar, status bar, key combos,
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function tags, line numbers, and selected text. This can be overridden by
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setting the options =titlecolor=, =statuscolor=, =keycolor=, =functioncolor=, =numbercolor=, and =selectedcolor=.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set boldtext
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#+END_SRC
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Enable soft line wrapping for easier viewing of very long lines.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set softwrap
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#+END_SRC
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When soft line wrapping is enabled, make it wrap lines at blank characters
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(tabs and spaces) instead of always at the edge of the screen.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set atblanks
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#+END_SRC
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Display line numbers to the left of the text area.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set linenumbers
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#+END_SRC
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Constantly display the cursor position in the status bar. This overrides the
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option =quickblank=.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set constantshow
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#+END_SRC
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** Whitespace settings
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: Configuration-Whitespace_settings-8cef9cd7
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:END:
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Convert typed tabs to spaces. Sue me.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set tabstospaces
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#+END_SRC
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Use a tab size of a certain amount of columns. The value of number must be
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greater than 0. The default value is 8.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set tabsize 2
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#+END_SRC
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Automatically indent a newly created line to the same number of tabs and/or
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spaces as the previous line (or as the next line if the previous line is the
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beginning of a paragraph).
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set autoindent
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#+END_SRC
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Remove trailing whitespace from wrapped lines when automatic hard-wrapping
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occurs or when text is justified.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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set trimblanks
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#+END_SRC
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** Included configuration file
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: Configuration-Included_configuration_file-70b0f35b
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:END:
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Nano gives the opportunity to include some files located elsewhere. This is
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why I added [[https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc][this repo]] as a submodule of my dotfiles so I can access a lot of
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them at the same time. Since the submodule is cloned in =~/.config/nanorc=,
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we can add only one line to include all of the =.nanorc= files.
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#+BEGIN_SRC conf
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include ~/.config/nano/nano-syntax/*.nanorc
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#+END_SRC
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