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Enable word wrapping like in original cmd.exe shell #6663

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CarlosOnline opened this issue Jun 24, 2020 · 3 comments
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Enable word wrapping like in original cmd.exe shell #6663

CarlosOnline opened this issue Jun 24, 2020 · 3 comments
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Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting Resolution-Won't-Fix We're just really obstinate about this. There's probably a good reason.

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Original cmd shell provides screen buffer size / window size settings that allow long lines to stay on a single view line instead of wrapping to next line.

Please add the same functionality.

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@ghost ghost added Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements labels Jun 24, 2020
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DHowett commented Jun 24, 2020

We are not adding an option to disable line wrapping. Sorry.

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@DHowett DHowett added the Resolution-Won't-Fix We're just really obstinate about this. There's probably a good reason. label Jun 24, 2020
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I am not using your product.

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For the record, this is explained in greater detail in #1860 (comment). Having rows of text that are longer than the width of the viewport is something that' pretty fundamentally incompatible with traditional terminal emulation. Conhost had far too many bugs related to non-wrapped lines not working with VT sequences, and we're not about to hop back in to that pit of snakes.

If non-wrapped lines are something that you really want, there are commandline tools that you might be able to use to achieve the same effect. I believe that less allows you to pipe text to it, and view it "unwrapped".

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