gnome-terminal should allow the disabling of text wrapping (so that there is a scroll bar at the bottom instead)

[Wise Melon]

I would find it rather useful, especially with certain types of outputs, if gnome-terminal would allow me to disable text wrapping, that is so that there would be a horizontal scroll bar that would allow me to see the rest of the text.

I don't know if this should/would include the commands you type it, but maybe there could be a separate option for the wrapping of that.

There are other Terminals which support this, and I think it would be really nice if gnome-terminal would too so that one doesn't have to put all of the output into another program like 'less' or similar in order to disable the wrapping.

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.20 and would find this a very useful feature.

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

@Marius, This could still be done as a downstream patch and they haven't rejected that yet so there's no reason to close it as just "Opinion", in fact it would make more sense for them to close this as "Won't fix" because really "Opinion" refers to something completely different.

I must admit that after looking at the description given for this option it does look like it's at least very close, but I've always been told that this is not what the option is for when others use it on my bugs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.