How to disable wrapping lines in nano?

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My nano did not wrap long lines automatically at first, they just kept going. I do not know what I did but now the automatic wrapping is enabled.

I want to know how to reconfigure nano to disable automatic line wrapping, this has bothered me a lot.

I've seen the nano -w command that it comes without wrapping, but what I want is to disable it by default and run nano without having to worry about wrapping.

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To change persistent settings for nano, we can edit the user-specific .nanorc file (/home/user/.nanorc). This file contains configuration settings that nano loads on start-up.

To disable line-wrapping, we need to specify the nowrap directive. Add this line to .nanorc: 

set nowrap

We may need to create this file if it doesn't exist. For more information about the available settings in this file, see the .nanorc man page: 

$ man nanorc
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For others like me that hit this question from google and only want to disable wrapping temporarily, press EscL.

That toggles "Hard wrapping of overlong lines".

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