macosterminal
I often read outputs in the terminal that get wrapped as they are too long. Since there is no way that I can modify the printed output, I need to let the Terminal allow for horizontal scrolling.
Is there a modification I can make to the default OS X Terminal to disable line wrapping and allow for horizontal scrolling?
Or do you know another alternative I can use?
This has to do with line breaks. Terminal is looking for either a space, or a continuos string of characters to make a line break. In this case the first opportunity it sees to break the line is between the y and the o. The "y" is shown because the last character in an extended line is shown in the last place to hint the user that something is happening there.
Workarounds...
You could try:
echo -e "a \tb \tc \td \te \tf \tg \tyo"
and everything will appear as you'd expect it.
also something like
echo -e "ab\tcd\tef\tgh\tij\tkl\tmn\tyo"
should break between the "k" and "l"
Still this is odd behavior and defiantly worth a bug/radar report
Here's a starting point.
In iTerm 2 go to Preferences > Profiles > (Your profile) > Advanced, then click Edit under Triggers.
Add a new Trigger using the + button at the bottom left, then set:
.$Highlight Text…Red on White (or a colour combination you find appropriately funkadelic)Close the Triggers pane.
You should now see a white "line" at the far right of the iTerm window. This is really iTerm changing the last character on the line to red text on a white background. This should help you spot lines that are wrapped versus new lines.
Example screen grab below (I use fish shell, btw)…
Best Answer
tput did the trick for me:
disables line wrapping.
enables line wrapping.