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Stupid Shell Tricks

July 19, 2004 12:53 AM | Updated: July 23, 2004 11:35 PM | Ryan Tomayko | Under: Front«Notebook

Turn Off Horizontal Wrapping

This is called "Auto Wraparound" in xterm. Disable it:

  1. Ctrl + MiddleMouse click and deselect "Auto-Wraparound".
  2. xterm +aw
  3. From bash: printf %b '\033[?7l'

Disable it temporarily or for certain stuff by using less -S or w3m.

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