How do I configure the insert file target in nano?

Question

The GNU nano text editor has the ability to insert another file into the current file (^R). The behaviour of this command can be modified to insert the file into a new buffer with M-F.

I would like the default behaviour of ^R to be inserting the file into a new buffer. I have somehow accomplished this on several computers that I use, however I am unable to accomplish this on Mac OS X Mavericks with GNU nano 2.2.6 (latest stable version) installed via Homebrew.

Is there any nano configuration option to set this behaviour?

Answer 1

Turns out this is really quite simple, just include the line set multibuffer in your .nanorc file.