A whole line of text up and disappeared from my email. Please change the extension on this file to .txt to .m to see what happens.
BTW, thank you for nano! I love not having to remember all of that annoying stuff for vim, which I get constantly teased about. :-) You can probably tell that I am not really a programmer, just one that helps out programmers once in a while. Nancy Anthracite On Sunday, January 1, 2017 4:17:24 PM EST Nancy Anthracite wrote: > Well, one version was/is 2.2.6-3 > > > I had a feeling this was really a feature, and not a bug. :-) > > Nancy Anthracite > > On Sunday, January 1, 2017 10:02:01 PM EST Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > >
