Re: Disable justify on ^J

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Anyway, about your actual question...

I think this is a very old feature, and I've used copy and paste through
PuTTY before, so I have no idea what's going wrong for you.
Here's a quick-and-dirty workaround.  Let's say your shell prompt is a
dollar sign, and the file you want to change is config.txt.
Then do this:

$ cat > temp.txt
PASTE YOUR LINES HERE, USING PUTTY
NOW PRESS CTRL-D FOR END-OF-INPUT
$ nano temp.txt config.txt

Now you can use copy and paste within nano itself.  After you're done,
delete the temporary file.

Hope this helps.

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Yves Goergen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm facing an issue with using nano on Ubuntu Linux through PuTTY on
> Windows. I need to copy and paste a few lines of a configuration file into
> the file in the editor. Naturally the file uses Unix line endings (LF only)
> because it can also be copied over directly. Unfortunately, the two line
> ending characters, CR and LF, have the corresponding key input ^M and ^J.
> Now while ^M (CR) is actually documented to insert a new line (which is
> exactly what the Enter key does), ^J (LF) does not do the same thing, or
> nothing at least, but instead it messes up the document by removing some
> line breaks over the place.
>
> Interestingly, LF, the Unix line ending, causes justify, whereas CR, that
> alone is the Mac OS classic line ending, causes a new line. CR and LF,
> Windows line ending, would do both. I don't understand why the thing isn't
> broken everywhere but actually seems to work for interactive Linux users.
>
> So I need a way to permanently disable or remap the ^J hotkey. How does
> that work? I'm not interested in justify, this is a simple text editor, not
> a word processor.
>
> In the current state, I cannot use nano to maintain server config files
> through SSH. I'm not sure how to solve this otherwise. I don't want to go
> back to vim, and I have no experience with emacs. Are there other editors
> that are similarly easy to use as nano but don't have this major issue?
>
> Actually I can't remember having this trouble before. Is justify (with
> that hotkey) a new feature that was added with Ubuntu 16.04? Or even later
> through a security update?
>
> Yves
>
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