Issue 1790 in iterm2: Provide toggle to turn on/off line wrapping

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New issue 1790 by hughes.m...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn on/off line
wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

Looks like a conversation was had in the Google Groups about this but no
one ever actually filed a feature request.

http://groups.google.com/group/iterm2-discuss/browse_thread/thread/e0f4e9b552d8acd4

In general I don't like having horizontal scrollbars and prefer to have the
lines wrap, but there are occasions...such as looking at long stack traces,
that I'd rather just have sequentially indented lines line up and just be
forced to scroll to the right to expose all the details. To accomplish
this task now, I end up making the text incredibly small so I can read
stack traces lined up, but even that doesn't always work.

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Comment #1 on issue 1790 by sean.lea...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

I would like to occasionally turn off line wrapping, esp. for debugging
code where I print messages and don't want to worry about formatting. A
workaround is to pipe the output to a file, but this is often not
convenient.

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Comment #2 on issue 1790 by sven.sch...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

+1 Occasional horizontal scrolling is very handy when grepping logs

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Comment #3 on issue 1790 by cemalet...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to

turn on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

For long log files +1

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Comment #4 on issue 1790 by lalalala...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

Yes please! +1

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Comment #5 on issue 1790 by josebro...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

this would me amazing!

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Comment #6 on issue 1790 by co...@cjcsuhta.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

Yes! +1

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Comment #7 on issue 1790 by john.h...@ihance.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

Just starred this. An interim solution is to pipe to a line-trucating
utility:

eg: tail -f file_with_long_lines.txt | w


# truncate STDIN to console width
w() {
x=${COLUMNS-150}
x=${1-$x} # can specify width if desired...
[ $x -gt 255 ] && x=255 # never more than 255 b/c sed gets pissy
let x=$x-1 # subtract one to prevent line-wrap, of course...
sed -e "s~ ~ ~g" -e "s~^\(.\{$x\}\).*$~\1~" # the first re replaces tabs
with spaces

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Comment #8 on issue 1790 by gnach...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

Issue 2561 has been merged into this issue.

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Comment #9 on issue 1790 by superboe...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

Like said before; this would be great for log viewing/following with for
example "tail -f"

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Comment #10 on issue 1790 by Viachesl...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

Yes please! +1

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Comment #11 on issue 1790 by riemanco...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

Also useful for compiling. Command lines can be 100s to 1000s of
characters long; it's considerably easier to see warnings/errors if lines
do not wrap. Emacs shell is a workaround but iterm2 support is certainly
desired.

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Comment #12 on issue 1790 by msoul...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

The default of horizontal scrolling is just horrible. I need to see the
entire command, especially for copy/paste.

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Comment #13 on issue 1790 by jgarr...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

Most useful for me for server and git log files (like diffs). Lack of this
feature is possibly the biggest deal breaker for me.

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Comment #14 on issue 1790 by lancejst...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

Yes please add this feature, if only for the viewing of logs it would be
very handy indeed.

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Comment #15 on issue 1790 by gnach...@gmail.com: Provide toggle to turn

on/off line wrapping
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1790

This would be an enormous amount of work. If you pipe your output through
less -S, it will do this for you.