Question

When I run term mode in emacs GUI, I have issues with line wrapping. It runs fine when I am running emacs in xterm. When there is an output that has a very long line, it is all displayed on the same line, with my prompt. When I launch emacs in xterm, and then go to term mode, it behaves properly, wrapping the long line.

I run:

aaronjg@aaronjg-desk:~$ echo $PATH

and get.

aaronjg@aaronjg-desk:~$ usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/aaronjg/kde/bin:/usr

Answer 1

Put this in .emacs:

(setq overflow-newline-into-fringe nil)

Here’s where it comes into play in term.el:

(defun term-window-width ()
  (if (featurep 'xemacs)
      (1- (window-width))
    (if (and window-system overflow-newline-into-fringe)
        (window-width)
      (1- (window-width)))))