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The Mac OSX Terminal will re-wrap lines when the window is resized. Is this functionality available in any terminal emulator for Linux?

I'd prefer to do this with terminals like gnome-terminal that are included in the Ubuntu repositories.

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rxvt-unicode-256color version 9.07-3 (as provided by arch Linux) is confirmed to do this. The version of urxvt on my debian stable system does not. It should be easy enough to figure out how the ubuntu version behaves.

Other than that, the terminals I know of that will re-wrap are 9term, M-x shell in emacs, and a weird old app called xmlterm, which is a terminal emulator made using mozilla xul. Sadly what these have in common is that they do not support curses terminal control (ie. no running vi or nano or top or emacs or nethack etc. in these terminals). And other than emacs M-x shell they appear to not be actively developed (or even all that easy to find any more).

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rxvt-unicode v9.06 in Ubuntu 9.10 does this. v9.07 in Fedora 12 same as Arch (does). Very cool to know this. – SuperMagic Feb 22 '10 at 20:51
Thanks for the pointer that rxvt-unicode-256color works, however on my system it re-wraps only when enlarging the window. If you shrink the window, text is lost, and then when you re-enlarge it, you don't get it back. – ecloud Oct 25 '11 at 9:34
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