TIL Nano, the simple text editor that comes with MacOS, does line wrapping by default.

This makes it unsuitable for editing or files.

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@trinsec Yes, you can get the desired behavior with either a command-line flag or a config file. I was just surprised to see this as the default.

@peterdrake I'm not. I'm sure many users might want to just edit a textfile, then nowrap is kind of an inconvenience.

@trinsec If you're editing prose paragraphs, TextEdit might be a more natural choice. Soft wrapping could also be a reasonable compromise.

What's really surprising is that, according to the responses, this nano has the *opposite* behavior of nano on other platforms.

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