nano no longer saves as unix (lf-only) files

[sotha_sil]

Prior to posting this, the following were tried:

• man page
  
• info
  
• forum search
  
• browsing the nano website
  
• google search
  

Throughout this post I will be referring to dos text files and unix text files. By dos file I mean a file that uses CR-LF (carriage-return followed by a linefeed) pairs. By unix file, I mean a file that uses just LF (linefeed). Right, then: let's get to the actual question now.

If I edit a dos text file with nano, when I save, the file remains a dos text file when I save it. Up until two or three weeks ago, nano would always save a file, regardless of whether it was unix or dos, as unix (For the rare occasion when I wanted the file to remain as dos I'd use the "-dos" commandline option). Obviously something has changed, most likely at an "emerge world".

I would like to have nano behave the way it used to, saving always as unix.

So far, I have tweaked my ~/.nanorc file like so:

[sotha_sil]

So after a few weeks of no replies on this thread, and no success from trial and error, I concluded that there was a bug and reported this on the "bugzilla" bugtracker.

After some dialog with the folks at bugzilla, I was told to "use 1.3.8". Emerge/portage refused to do that. I checked my package.mask file: no nano masks in there so emerge had no reason to refuse it.

I unmerged (removed, uninstalled) nano and then grabbed the stable version from the nano web site and compiled it myself, outside of portage. Now nano works fine.

Hmm: I wonder if that would fix any of my other unsolved/unanswered gentoo problems.