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Is it possible to set the number of columns in Mathematica's text-based interface? Or disable word wrapping in the text-based interface ?

Specifically, my concern is output from MatrixForm and TableForm, which wraps output at about 85 columns. It seems as if the values were hardcoded in 1992.

I use the text based interface within an emacs shell buffer.

EDIT: The answer below that I checked green solves this problem in a few tests of commands that give long output, such as MatrixForm.

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    $\begingroup$ Not 1992, Perhaps about five years earlier than that. $\endgroup$
    – m_goldberg
    Commented Jul 17, 2014 at 18:26

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I don't use the command line and haven't tried this but I suspect that

SetOptions["stdout", PageWidth -> Infinity]

may be what you are after.

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  • $\begingroup$ +1. It also affects the width of the standard InputForm output in the FrontEnd. $\endgroup$
    – Alexey Popkov
    Commented Jul 23, 2014 at 2:06

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