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Manual line wrapping of exceptions looks bad on narrow terminal

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#18,356 opened on Sep 4, 2016

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Description

This is a rather minor point, but I think showerror exceptions would look better if the terminal emulator were allowed to wrap them instead of being manually line-wrapped. This is especially the case on narrow terminals:

I think it might be better just to print all the explanatory text on one line. Thoughts?

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Research direction
Locate the `showerror` function in base/errorshow.jl and identify where manual line breaks are inserted; modify to use long lines and rely on terminal wrapping.
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julia
Domain
cli
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Julia
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85