Support fixed width terminal windows

[tlemo]

Issue Type: Feature Request

For the integrated terminal, please add an option to set a fixed logical width, and a horizontal scroll bar when the terminal window is smaller than the logical width. Related to #46192 (but specific to the integrated terminal).

Seems also likely that this is what #48897 was asking for.

Thanks.

VS Code version: Code 1.34.0 (a622c65, 2019-05-15T21:59:37.030Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.16299

[Tyriar]

@tlemo I'm interested in your use case? Do you just use small windows and/or some program is better on wide?

[tlemo]

Hi Daniel, It's both. Perhaps a bit ironically, but on widescreen monitors it's nice to be able to use the terminal on the side (instead of top/bottom docking), so you end up with relatively narrow terminal windows. And building from the command line can easily produce lines longer than 100+ columns. Same with some non-build logs. The general case is line-oriented output, where line wrapping can be jarring.

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[Tyriar]

Related: #79246

[jagdishrajan]

@tlemo I'm interested in your use case? Do you just use small windows and/or some program is better on wide?

@Tyriar, I create PS functions that output other context specific PS commands that are quite long (because of blob paths, connection strings etc.) These then need to be copied and pasted in a single line, so having the original output wrap disrupts this methodology.

[Tyriar]

@jagdishrajan you're meant to be able to be easily copy wrapped lines by double clicking them, is PS's table formatting preventing that or something? (if so you could try column selection with alt+drag)

[ultraGentle]

Integrated terminal with (1) no line wrapping + (2) horizontal scroll would also be useful to me.

Use case
I'm using the Google Firebase local emulator, and logs are output to the terminal.

Logs may include long strings: urls, ids, tokens, etc. -- also, nested JSON.

I don't need to see all their contents; I just need to be able to see back up the history of logs.

With line wrap, the visual structure is disrupted and it's hard to see what's going on.

I'm on a small laptop, and I have the terminal as a column at the right.

Current workaround
tput rmam command truncates long lines -- but then you can't see what's to the right, if you need it.

[tony-bony]

I often print in the Terminal the contents of a pandas DataFrame. Wrapping the output makes the dataframe totally unreadable. And using tput rmam is out of options for me. I need to see all the data. What we need is a setting do disable wrapping and a horizontal scroll.

[jagdishrajan]

@Tyriar, terminal output can be used for many purposes such as reviewing results, copying portions of results or "other commands as results" and re-pasting them. As @tony-bony said columnar output that's aligned is difficult to review when wrapped.

It's also important to select and copy multiple lines and vertical selection of results. When selecting these results switching to the mouse rather continuing to use the keyboard is inconvenient. (Vscode editor has works well with its Ctrl+Alt+Shift+arrow shortcut for this).

[codeRSH]

My requirement is also similar to what @tony-bony has suggested above.

VScode should allow to at least use the full width of the screen when Terminal docked at the bottom. It's not happening right now.

Any workaround or timeline for this fix of terminal width?