pseudo console and auto-wrap

Takashi Yano takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp
Fri Mar 6 12:55:00 GMT 2020


Hi Thomas,

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 11:33:33 +0100
Thomas Wolff wrote:
> With ConPTY support, the following command results in output that 
> contains an explicit newline at the auto-wrap position:
> cmd /c echo a line which is wider than your terminal ...
> 
> For copy/paste, this is surprising and undesired 
> (https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/971).
> Can the line wrapping case be handled specifically, assuming proper 
> auto-wrap mode on the terminal side, to avoid this?

This is internal behaviour of pseudo console.
So we can not touch it. WSL also behaves the same.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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