Re: packaging nano with a skeleton nanorc file

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 14-09-2020 om 12:56 schreef Kamil Dudka:
> Syntax highlighting is not the only uncommented line in /etc/nanorc on 
> Fedora.  
> It also sets the spell checker program:
> 
>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/681000

Since version 4.6 'hunspell' is the default internal spell checker:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/commit/?id=4d77e0ad

(This uses 'hunspell' to create a list of misspelled words and then lets the
user correct each of them in turn.  Setting 'speller' uses the given program
as an external checker: the correcting is done in that program too.  I notice,
though, that 'hunspell' touches the temporary file even when zero changes were
made, resulting that nano marks the buffer as "Modified".  :|  For example,
'aspell' doesn't do this.)

> I do not think we want to discourage users from configuring anything 
> globally.  
> We should just give them an option to skip the global configuration if needed.

The only mechanism we have for that is -f: 'nano -f /home/user/somefile' will
not read /etc/nanorc nor /home/user/.nanorc, but just the indicated file.  So,
if the user wants the global /etc/nanorc to always be skipped, they could do:

  alias nano="/bin/nano -f /home/user/.nanorc"

Benno

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