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Is there a way to prevent konsole from wrapping lines? It would be great if I could do it without disabling any of the other features like extended colors and other of the fancier things.

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There's a VT100 control sequence for that, which should be supported by Konsole. It's called DECAWM, and here's how to emit it:

echo -ne '\e[?7l'

My question would be though: why?

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  • Well I'm tailing a file and I just need to quickly glance at the first few dozen characters of the line before I look at the rest. I want to be able to see the rest if I choose to, but I want to see the first bit first. This just seems easier than piping my tail through a complex regex – Falmarri Dec 16 '10 at 06:18
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    'less' might be the tool for you then. Invoke it with the -S (or --chop-long-lines) option to stop it from wrapping lines. You can scroll left and right with the cursor keys. Hit F (uppercase, i.e. with Shift down) to make 'less' tail the end of the file. – ak2 Dec 16 '10 at 09:41
  • +1 for your suggestion of `less`! – Josh Dec 16 '10 at 14:19
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    ...if you try the escape sequence: then to re-enable the wrap `echo -ne '\e[?7h'` – Peter.O Apr 26 '11 at 22:26
  • Thank you very much! very helpful for me using dropdown terminal in half screen, and I can work it out with just the 80% first portion of console screen most times.. wrapping was making hard to read errors and rspec output.. – Andre Figueiredo Apr 15 '19 at 14:20