files are inserted from this directory. By default, the operating
directory feature is turned off.
.TP
+.B set/unset poslog
+Save the cursor position of files between editing sessions.
+.TP
.B set/unset preserve
Preserve the XON and XOFF keys (^Q and ^S).
.TP
punctuation, optionally followed by closing brackets, can end sentences.
The default value is "\fI!.?\fP".
.TP
-.B set/unset quiet
-\fBnano\fP will not report errors in the \fInanorc\fP file and ask them
-to be acknowledged by pressing enter at startup. If this is used it
-should be placed at the top of the file to be fully effective.
-.TP
.B set/unset quickblank
Do quick statusbar blanking. Statusbar messages will disappear after 1
keystroke instead of 25.
.TP
+.B set/unset quiet
+\fBnano\fP will not report errors in the \fInanorc\fP file nor ask them
+to be acknowledged by pressing enter at startup. If this is used it
+should be placed at the top of the file to be fully effective.
+.TP
.B set quotestr "\fIstring\fP"
The email-quote string, used to justify email-quoted paragraphs. This
is an extended regular expression if your system supports them,
.B set/unset regexp
Do extended regular expression searches by default.
.TP
-.B set/unset poslog
-Save the cursor position of files between editing sessions.
-.TP
.B set/unset smarthome
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
.B set/unset suspend
Allow \fBnano\fP to be suspended.
.TP
+.B set/unset suspendenable
+If \fBnano\fP is allowed to be suspended, allow the suspend key
+(usually ^Z) to actually suspend it.
+.TP
.B set tabsize \fIn\fP
Use a tab size of \fIn\fP columns. The value of \fIn\fP must be greater
than 0. The default value is 8.
.B set/unset view
Disallow file modification.
.TP
-.B set/unset softwrap
-Enable soft line wrapping for easier viewing of very long lones.
-.TP
.B set whitespace "\fIstring\fP"
Set the two characters used to display the first characters of tabs and
spaces. They must be single-column characters.
special: it takes no \fIfileregex\fP, and applies to files that don't
match any other syntax's \fIfileregex\fP.
.TP
-.B linter \fIprogram\fP [\fIargs\fP ... ]
+.B linter \fIprogram\fP [\fIarg\fP ... ]
For the currently defined syntax, use the given \fIprogram\fR
to invoke the linter (this overrides the speller function when
defined).
@table @code
+@item set/unset allow_insecure_backup
+When backing up files, allow the backup to succeed even if its
+permissions can't be (re)set due to special OS considerations.
+You should NOT enable this option unless you are sure you need it.
+
@item set/unset autoindent
Use auto-indentation.
@item set/unset historylog
Enable ~/.nano_history for saving and reading search/replace strings.
+@ item set/unset locking
+Enable vim-style lock-files for when editing files.
+
@item set matchbrackets "string"
Set the opening and closing brackets that can be found by bracket
searches. They cannot contain blank characters. The former set must
files are inserted from this directory. By default, the operating
directory feature is turned off.
+@item set/unset poslog
+Save the cursor position of files between editing sessions.
+
@item set/unset preserve
Preserve the XON and XOFF keys (^Q and ^S).
Do quick statusbar blanking. Statusbar messages will disappear after 1
keystroke instead of 25.
+@item set/unset quiet
+When set, @code{nano} will not report errors in the nanorc file nor ask them
+to be acknowledged by pressing Enter at startup. If this option is used, it
+should be placed at the top of the file to be fully effective.
+
@item set quotestr "string"
The email-quote string, used to justify email-quoted paragraphs. This
is an extended regular expression if your system supports them,
Use smooth scrolling by default.
@item set/unset softwrap
-Use soft wrapping by default.
+Enable soft line wrapping for easier viewing of very long lines.
@item set speller "spellprog"
Use spelling checker "spellprog" instead of the built-in one, which
takes no "fileregex", and applies to files that don't match any other
syntax's "fileregex".
+@item linter program [arg @dots{} ]
+For the currently defined syntax, use the given program to invoke the
+linter (this overrides the speller function when defined).
+
+@item magic ["regex" @dots{} ]
+For the currently defined syntax, add one or more regexes which will be
+compared against the magic database when attempting to determine which
+highlighting rules to use for a given file. This functionality only works
+when libmagic is installed on the system and will be silently ignored otherwise.
+
@item color fgcolor,bgcolor "regex" @dots{}
For the currently defined syntax, display all expressions matching the
extended regular expression "regex" with foreground color "fgcolor" and
Read in self-contained color syntaxes from "syntaxfile". Note that
"syntaxfile" can only contain "syntax", "color", and "icolor" commands.
+@item extendsyntax str directive [arg @dots{} ]
+Extend the syntax previously defined as str to include new information.
+Allows you to add a new color, icolor, magic, header, or linter directive
+to an already defined syntax. Useful when you want to add to definitions
+from the system-installed syntax definitions (which are normally not writable).
+
@end table
Disable the tab completion code when reading or writing files.
@item --disable-wrapping
-Disable all long line wrapping. This also eliminates the -w command
-line option, which enables long line wrapping.
+Disable all long-line wrapping. This also eliminates the -w command
+line option, which enables long-line wrapping.
@item --enable-tiny
This option disables all the above. It also disables some of the larger
available GNU @code{nano} translations.
@item --disable-wrapping-as-root
-Disable long line wrapping by default when nano is run as root.
+Disable long-line wrapping by default when @code{nano} is run as root.
@item --enable-utf8
Enable support for reading and writing Unicode files. This will require
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