FreeBSD's console wraps lines at $COLUMNS - 1 rather than $COLUMNS (the cursor can never be beyond $COLUMNS - 1) and does not appear to support changing this behaviour, or any of the obvious possibilities (turning off right margin wrapping, insert mode). This is irritating, most notably because it impossible to write to the very bottom-right of the screen without scrolling. To work around this, if built on FreeBSD and run with a "cons" $TERM, the bottom-right cell on the screen is omitted.

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@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 11 February 2009
 
+* FreeBSD's console wraps lines at $COLUMNS - 1 rather than $COLUMNS (the
+  cursor can never be beyond $COLUMNS - 1) and does not appear to support
+  changing this behaviour, or any of the obvious possibilities (turning off
+  right margin wrapping, insert mode). This is irritating, most notably because
+  it impossible to write to the very bottom-right of the screen without
+  scrolling. To work around this, if built on FreeBSD and run with a "cons"
+  $TERM, the bottom-right cell on the screen is omitted.
 * Emulate scroll regions (slowly) to support the few terminals which don't have
   it (some of which don't really have any excuse).
 
@@ -1095,7 +1102,7 @@
   (including mutt, emacs). No status bar yet and no key remapping or other
   customisation.
 
-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.251 2009-02-11 19:06:56 nicm Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.252 2009-02-11 23:16:41 nicm Exp $
 
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