Is there a way to enable minicom linewrap by default

Question

I use minicom when working on Cisco router serial terminals... by default, I use these settings in my ~/.minirc.dfl:

pu port             /dev/ttyUSB0
pu baudrate         9600
pu bits             8
pu parity           N
pu stopbits         1
pu rtscts           No
pu xonxoff          No
pu minit
pu mreset
pu mhangup

What's interesting is that minicom defaults to linewrap off, and I haven't found a way to turn it on in ~/.minirc.dfl. When I've tried the obvious like:

pu linewrap         Yes

minicom barks that **Line 9 of the personal config is unparsable.

Other than a bash alias like alias minicom="minicom -w", is there a way to default minicom to automatically wrap lines? I would like to set this in ~/.minirc.dfl

Answer 1

Your guess should be correct, because this is exactly the line, minicom writes itself when invoked in setup mode via minicom -s:

# Machine-generated file - use "minicom -s" to change parameters.
pu linewrap         Yes

However it neither does not work on my machine. A workaround is to use the environment variable MINICOM

MINICOM="-w"
export MINICOM

as explained in the manual:

When minicom starts, it first searches the MINICOM environment variable for command-line arguments (...)

Answer 2

"minicom -s" allows you to configure the Line Wrap option