[ILUG] Adjusting terminal width independantly of terminal emulator width

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 08:35:11 -0500
  | From: Brendan Arthurs <brenarth at relodublin.com>
  | 
  | When following logfiles using tail -f, I'd like to have the entries
  | displayed onscreen with a single terminal line used for each logfile
  | line. That is, I don't want lines longer than the window width to be
  | wrapped. Ideally they should contine beyond the edge of the terminal,
  | which could then be scrolled horizontally to read beyond the edge.
  | 
  | As I understand it, wrapping happens based on the COLUMNS environment
  | variable,  [ ... ]

 NO.  $COLUMNS is the current width (in characters née columns)
 of the terminak window.  _if_ line wrapping is enabled, or the
 pagination program does line wrapping, it will happen at that
 position; but $COLUMNS does not control the position.

  | Does anyone know how to do this? I'm currently using konsole as a
  | terminal emulator, but if I could get the behaviour described above
  | from any other terminal emulator I'd happily switch.

 less -S ?
 you might try xterm(1) and turning off “auto wraparound”
 (control-middle-button), but I doubt that will does what
 you really want.

cheers!
	-blf-
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