wrap text with disp.

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Chad Greene
Chad Greene on 17 Aug 2014
Edited: per isakson on 24 Sep 2015
The error command wraps text to fit the width of the command window, but disp does not. I know I can put in hard-wired new lines with disp, but I do not want to assume that a user's command window is N characters wide. Is there a way to let text fit the command window dynamically as it does with error?
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per isakson
per isakson on 18 Aug 2014
With R2013a,64bit,Win7 your example outputs one long line. No word wrap here either. (And no warning or error message.)
dpb
dpb on 18 Aug 2014
No joy w/ R2012b on XP, either. Interestingly enough,
>> com.mathworks.services.Prefs.getBooleanPref('CommandWindowWrapLines')
ans =
0
>> com.mathworks.services.Prefs.setBooleanPref('CommandWindowWrapLines',1)
>> com.mathworks.services.Prefs.getBooleanPref('CommandWindowWrapLines')
ans =
1
>>
Does make it appear there is such a option but whatever it does, disp "knows nuthnk!" about it...

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Chad Greene
Chad Greene on 23 Sep 2015
I ended up writing a function for this called wraptext.

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dpb
dpb on 18 Aug 2014
Seems like reasonable enhancement request -- mayhaps TMW official support can suggest a workaround meanwhile.

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