Nano text editor reformats pasted text. How to disable

Question

When using nano text editor in terminal to edit a shell file, it reformats text that I paste in from the clipboard. I can't find any way to disable this. There is nothing in the nanorc docs that at all seems to apply. This is on a default configuration for nano on OS X Snow leopard.
Here is an example:
If I cut the following text from text edit or bbedit:
#!/bin/bash --
# /usr/local/bin/fixsyncpermissions.sh
# Eden Nelson - 4/14/08
# Sam Smith 4/15/08
# 755 = rwxrwxr-x
#set -vx
SHAREPOINTPATH="/Volumes/SBData/ServerSync"
CHMODMODE="775"
CHMODUSER="admin"
CHMODGROUP="admin"
echo "Start Permissions Fix on $SHAREPOINTPATH"
chown -R "$CHMODUSER":"$CHMODGROUP" "$SHAREPOINTPATH"
chmod -R "$CHMODMODE" "$SHAREPOINTPATH"
echo "Completed Permissions Fix on Volumes/Aux/ServerSync"
exit
Then paste it into nano
$ sudo nano fixsyncpermissions.sh
and then command v to paste
It shows up like this in Nano
#!/bin/bash --
# /usr/local/bin/fixsyncpermissions.sh Eden Nelson - 4/14/08 Sam Smith 4/15/08 755 = rwxrwxr-x set -vx
SHAREPOINTPATH="/Volumes/SBData/ServerSync" CHMODMODE="775" CHMODUSER="admin" CHMODGROUP="admin" echo "Start Permissions Fix on $SHAREPOINTPATH" chown -R
"$CHMODUSER":"$CHMODGROUP" "$SHAREPOINTPATH" chmod -R "$CHMODMODE" "$SHAREPOINTPATH" echo "Completed Permissions Fix on Volumes/Aux/ServerSync" exit
Notice that is stripped the comment symbols '#' from the comment lines and concatenated them
then it stripped the carriage returns from the other lines and concatenated them.
Anybody have a clue as to what is causing this?

Answer 1

There is a special unix forum that may also be helpful:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735