Nano Editor – How to Enable Horizontal Scrolling

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I am using nano on files with long lines.
How could I scroll the nano window horizontally?

Ex:

┌────────────┐
|Lorem ipsum |dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, 
|sed do eiusm|od tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 
|Dolor sed vi|verra ipsum nunc aliquet bibendum enim.
|In massa tem|por nec feugiat. Nunc aliquet bibendum enim facilisis gravida. 
└────────────┘

I would like scrolling right side:

            ┌────────────┐
Lorem ipsum |dolor sit am|et, consectetur adipiscing elit, 
sed do eiusm|od tempor in|cididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 
Dolor sed vi|verra ipsum |nunc aliquet bibendum enim.
In massa tem|por nec feug|iat. Nunc aliquet bibendum enim facilisis gravida. 
            └────────────┘

Best Answer

I'm pretty sure you cannot do that in nano. The closest you could get would be line wrapping, precisely "soft wrapping": Esc+$.

This will wrap lines so you could see them all on the screen.

Source: https://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.9/nano.html (search for --softwrap)

You could get this kind of behaviour with vim, though, the editor is more configurable. See: https://ddrscott.github.io/blog/2016/sidescroll/

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