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When a line is longer than the current window width, Putty will wrap the line instead of showing a horizontal scroll bar. How can I prevent this behavior?
It's particularly annoying when using a MySQL client.
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When a line is longer than the current window width, Putty will wrap the line instead of showing a horizontal scroll bar. How can I prevent this behavior?
It's particularly annoying when using a MySQL client.
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PuTTY, as noted, does not provide a horizontal scroll bar. It supports the VT100-style autowrap feature which may be confused for the ability to suppress line-wrapping. But it does not work that way:
The feature in terminfo is called "auto-margins", and is listed here:
auto_right_margin am am terminal has auto-
matic margins
In Basic Capabilities, the manual notes
If the terminal wraps around to the beginning of the next line when it reaches the right margin, then it should have the am capability.
That is, it tells the application what to expect. If the application does not expect that the terminal will wrap it will assume that it does not, and move the cursor to simulate wrapping as needed.
As a general rule, terminal emulators provide configurable features that can be
The last (disabled) is much less common than the first two. PuTTY's automargin feature lies in the first category. As noted in PuTTY wish horiz-scroll, if you really need horizontal scrolling, you will only get that by using an application running in the terminal emulator which simulates the feature. The example given (less) provides this using the -S
option (see Use less -S
for horizontal scrolling).
I also find http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/horiz-scroll.html . Does this mean that it's not possible.
– PHPst – 2015-06-14T09:42:01.300what if you choose http://i.stack.imgur.com/RiG58.png then http://www.installsetupconfig.com/win32programming/puttyreactosdebug_files/debugserialputtyreactos045.png as described here http://www.ehow.com/how_8693034_prevent-line-wrap-putty.html
– barlop – 2015-06-14T09:44:27.937I have already tried that. As mentioned in the documentation, it overwrite the beginning of the long line. – PHPst – 2015-06-14T09:47:48.277