Text wrapping with long input/output using shell about stata_kernel HOT 3 CLOSED

Pros-vs-cons of setting wider terminal size:

Pros

• Most screens are wider than 80 characters. But when the terminal is set to 80 chars, the output is never wider than 80 chars. For example:
  
  And this is on a vertical montor. Most people use horizontal monitors and might want to be able to view their results with less vertical space

Cons

• It's hard to know what a good width value is.

Note that both input and output wraps like this:

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You could set the width to c(linesize), whatever that might be.

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I'm guessing c(linesize) is 79 by default anyways.

Currently in dev, I remove all line continuations and have wide lines if that's what Stata would have printed. This is consistent with other kernels like IPython, and it's rare that a Stata command has to wrap. It's usually with weird input like the above anyways.

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