How can I expand the max width of the Run Tool Window in Clion/Intellij?

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As you can see, there's plenty of space for the text to expand to the right, but it gets wrapped at 120 characters. I have tried turning off soft wrapping (the little button on the right side), I tried going into the settings, under editor -> general -> console, unchecking "use soft wraps in console", and increasing the "console commands history size", but none of these have worked. I'd like for the cout of my program to continue to the right, and ideally just make a horizontal scroll bar rather than wrapping or truncating. Is there a way to do this in CLion/Intellij?

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120 is the default value for windows console. To change the value 1. you can set the OS-wide system variable CONSOLE_WIDTH. 2. setup CONSOLE_WIDTH inside you run configuration:

Configuration editor

then Registry... (aka Help -> Find action -> Registry...) got to be invoked to opt out value of run.processes.with.pty

Registry...

Using PyCharm, I had this issue when running commands automatically generated from my Makefile, and the CONSOLE_WIDTH=200 solution didn't work.

In the end, what did work was to tick the Use Cygwin option in Build, Execution, Deployment > Build Tools > Make:

"Use Cygwin" tickbox in Settings

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