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A new terminal is nice, I guess.

But all I ever wanted was simply the ability to disable line wrap.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-212620/Allow-a-use...

Nobody gets promoted for implementing a line wrap toggle in the old terminal, but they do for creating an entirely new terminal.

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That's not nearly as easy as it sounds because terminals are grid based. So expanding the terminal width dynamically due to a lack of LF control character would get very computationally expensive very quickly.

Yes! I just responded before I saw this comment. Exactly this! This is so typical of jetbrains, rather than fix a bug they created something that will take weeks to learn, when really we just want our own console that we already know.

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