[iterm2-discuss] Turn on Horizontal scrolling

[Ben Goldman]

I have recently started with iTerm2 because OSX Terminal does not
word-wrap. Thanks for the beautiful app. Btw, can you tell me how can I
disable word-wrap and turn on horizontal scrolling (seems like a obvious
feature that Apple Terminal missed)

Many thanks,
Ben

[George Nachman]

Sorry, horizontal scrolling is not supported. You could try piping your
output through less, which I believe provides it with the right arguments.

Post by Ben Goldman
I have recently started with iTerm2 because OSX Terminal does not
word-wrap. Thanks for the beautiful app. Btw, can you tell me how can I
disable word-wrap and turn on horizontal scrolling (seems like a obvious
feature that Apple Terminal missed)
Many thanks,
Ben
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"iterm2-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Chas. Owens]

Just blueskying here, couldn't you create the terminal as 1000x25
characters, but only show 80x25? That is, the window would be a viewport
on the terminal rather than holding it. It would probably cause problems
for applications that expect you to be able to see the whole screen, but if
the user is willing to live with the pain then that is their problem. I
can see times where I might want to resize the terminal to a virtual
4096x60 for a little bit (when running certain SQL queries for instance).
Most of the time the viewport and the terminal sizes would match (just like
they do today), but when needed, you could grow the terminal size, but
leave the viewport size the same. Then, when you were done, you could
force them to be the same size again.

Post by George Nachman
Sorry, horizontal scrolling is not supported. You could try piping your
output through less, which I believe provides it with the right arguments.

Post by Ben Goldman
I have recently started with iTerm2 because OSX Terminal does not
word-wrap. Thanks for the beautiful app. Btw, can you tell me how can I
disable word-wrap and turn on horizontal scrolling (seems like a obvious
feature that Apple Terminal missed)
Many thanks,
Ben
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"iterm2-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"iterm2-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[George Nachman]

Yeah, that'd kinda sorta work. It's pretty easy to end up with a line long
enough to wrap even with a "giant" window, and you'll use an insane amount
of memory to boot. Horizontal scrolling is theoretically doable but just a
heck of a lot of work and not a high enough priority compared to existing
requirements and bugs, especially since there are workarounds like using
less.

Post by Chas. Owens
Just blueskying here, couldn't you create the terminal as 1000x25
characters, but only show 80x25? That is, the window would be a viewport
on the terminal rather than holding it. It would probably cause problems
for applications that expect you to be able to see the whole screen, but if
the user is willing to live with the pain then that is their problem. I
can see times where I might want to resize the terminal to a virtual
4096x60 for a little bit (when running certain SQL queries for instance).
Most of the time the viewport and the terminal sizes would match (just like
they do today), but when needed, you could grow the terminal size, but
leave the viewport size the same. Then, when you were done, you could
force them to be the same size again.

Post by George Nachman
Sorry, horizontal scrolling is not supported. You could try piping your
output through less, which I believe provides it with the right arguments.

Post by Ben Goldman
I have recently started with iTerm2 because OSX Terminal does not
word-wrap. Thanks for the beautiful app. Btw, can you tell me how can I
disable word-wrap and turn on horizontal scrolling (seems like a obvious
feature that Apple Terminal missed)
Many thanks,
Ben
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "iterm2-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"iterm2-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"iterm2-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Jon Fife]

I would definitely donate to see a horizontal scrolling option. Using less
isn't an option when working in interactive programs with wide output. It
wouldn't have to be "unlimited", just make the screen size independent of
the # columns setting.

Post by George Nachman
Yeah, that'd kinda sorta work. It's pretty easy to end up with a line long
enough to wrap even with a "giant" window, and you'll use an insane amount
of memory to boot. Horizontal scrolling is theoretically doable but just a
heck of a lot of work and not a high enough priority compared to existing
requirements and bugs, especially since there are workarounds like using
less.

Post by Chas. Owens
Just blueskying here, couldn't you create the terminal as 1000x25
characters, but only show 80x25? That is, the window would be a viewport
on the terminal rather than holding it. It would probably cause problems
for applications that expect you to be able to see the whole screen, but if
the user is willing to live with the pain then that is their problem. I
can see times where I might want to resize the terminal to a virtual
4096x60 for a little bit (when running certain SQL queries for instance).
Most of the time the viewport and the terminal sizes would match (just like
they do today), but when needed, you could grow the terminal size, but
leave the viewport size the same. Then, when you were done, you could
force them to be the same size again.

Post by George Nachman
Sorry, horizontal scrolling is not supported. You could try piping your
output through less, which I believe provides it with the right arguments.

Post by Ben Goldman
I have recently started with iTerm2 because OSX Terminal does not
word-wrap. Thanks for the beautiful app. Btw, can you tell me how can I
disable word-wrap and turn on horizontal scrolling (seems like a obvious
feature that Apple Terminal missed)
Many thanks,
Ben
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "iterm2-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "iterm2-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"iterm2-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.