add option to override word wrap width

[niedzielski]

[JakeWharton]

Why do you need this? On Jul 25, 2014 9:37 PM, "Stephen Niedzielski" [email protected] wrote:

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• add option to override word wrap width

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[niedzielski]

I use this option for the following cases: 1 Disable word wrapping. 2 Handling pipelines (grep, wc, tee, etc) and file redirection which don't have a known desired width. 3 Start pidcat from a small terminal not yet maximized.

This option seemed like a simple, albeit crude, solution to all three:

1 This could be implemented as a standalone option.

2 Grepping with context isn't fun. Detection for the output stream could and probably should be added but I think this is still a nice control to have.

3 I don't like that the wrapping behavior gets stuck on the invocations size. Dynamic terminal sizing could be added, but I like the flexibility to assume a constant size, if specified.