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4.6 KiB
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116 lines
4.6 KiB
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#+TITLE: Nano configuration
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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:
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*Before proceeding, be aware that I deprecated this nano config on August 28th, 2020, meaning I won’t update it anymore unless I use it again some day 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 all sorts of tasks, including quick file editing. However, at times, Emacs won’t work or won’t be available, and I therefore need a lightweight, fast and reliable text editor: Nano. And despite Nano being a simple piece of software, 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 name. And make and keep not just one backup file, but make and keep a uniquely numbered one every time a file is saved — when backups are enabled with =set backup= or =--backup= or =-B=. The uniquely numbered files are stored in the 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 of saving a file in the format that it had. (This option has no effect when 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 beginning of non-whitespace characters on a line, the cursor will jump to that beginning (either forwards or backwards). If the cursor is already at 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 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, function tags, line numbers, and selected text. This can be overridden by 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 (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 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 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 spaces as the previous line (or as the next line if the previous line is the 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 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 why I added [[https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc][this repo]] as a submodule of my dotfiles so I can access a lot of them at the same time. Since the submodule is cloned in =~/.config/nanorc=, 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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