Resizing Window Columns - Text Disappears about terminus

[randy3k]

Thanks for the detailed reproducible steps.

Originally, text will be truncated when the width of the window is decreased. It may more sensible to keep the text to prevent data lost.

[divingskyward]

Thanks! Would be great to keep the text if possible.

[neunato]

@randy3k Reporting that this is still not fixed.

Your commit fixes text disappearing when resizing down (and then scrolling in the downsized view), but when resizing back to a larger width the text disappears.

[randy3k]

@monkape actually the text is not truncated. There is a synchronization issue between the process and the screen. The text is not flowing correctly. It may be an upstream issue of winpty. Not really fixable in Terminus.

[neunato]

I see.

What do you think about adding a setting for minimum width (take a look here)?
Or even better, a word_wrap setting that, when false, would never decrease the view's width.

That fixes not only this problem, but also text wrapping when resizing a view that's running a never ending program, such as a web server.

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I keep such terminals in groups to the right of the main view, and often resize them to a really small width in order to focus on the main content. Resizing back messes up the output + the noise can be distracting.

[randy3k]

I am happy to support such a setting, but I would set it the default to a smaller number, say 20.

FYI, word_wrap is set as false in default.

[neunato]

I am happy to support such a setting, but I would set it the default to a smaller number, say 20.

Great, I'll hit you up with a pull request.

FYI, word_wrap is set as false in default.

I guess my wording was a bit off - what I meant was never "wrapping" the terminal content and not sublime's view.

It could be implemented by setting a huge width to the actual terminal (such that sublime's view won't surpass it) and then cropping lines (trimming whitespace) in view to match the longest line. That last bit is necessary to have a sensible horizontal scrollbar size.