nano editor line breaks

Question

I am trying to learn nano installed on my server (ubuntu 1204), but the problem is whenever I open a file in nano editor it opens the file (say a shell script) as one big line rather than with line breaks which fit the screen.

Is it possible to open files with linebreaks in nano? I have tried googling this problem, but couldn’t find anything which works.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Tound

What do you use to write these shell scripts? – Parrett

And does the file show up as line1\nline2 or just line1line2? – Parrett

@Blender: no, it has this irritating $ sign at the end of the screen.. – Tound

ok I solved it - hitting Ctrl+J shows the lines "broken" – Tound

the q belongs on askubuntu.com – Nupercaine

Answer 1

Ctrl+J and the lines "broken".

Tound

Answer 2

Toggle soft line-wrap in Nano:

Alt+s

("Alt" key is the same as "Meta" key on Linux.)

Display a list of keyboard commands:

Ctrl+g

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