Hello Nancy,

Short answer:

  sudo rm /usr/share/nano/objc.nanorc

But if you don't want to be that drastic, read on.

On 2017-01-01 20:10, Nancy Anthracite wrote:
> The MUMPS programming code files for GT.M have a .m extension.  If I 
> try to edit these files now, the white space is greatly expanded in 
> ways I am not sure how to describe.

Can you attach a file with MUMPS code that exhibited the "whitespace
expansion"?  So that I can try to see this for myself.

> If I change the file extension to .txt, it works fine.

Instead of removing the objc syntax, you could use the option -Ynone
when editing MUMPS files.  (You could make an alias that includes this
option.)

> The files could be edited just like I have for years and just like I
> am editing this file.

It worked fine in an earlier version of nano?  Which version was that?

Benno

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