[feature]
don't use current console window width to add linebreaks to output (including debug, error, and verbose) explicitly change errorrecord formatter to not add linebreaks set width to int.maxvalue if not specified, in some special cases if width is int.maxvalue, set to console.windowwidth so that you don't get int.maxvalue padding (like tables)

don't use current console window width to add linebreaks to output (including debug, error, and verbose) explicitly change errorrecord formatter to not add linebreaks set width to int.maxvalue if not specified, in some special cases if width is int.maxvalue, set to console.windowwidth so that you don't get int.maxvalue padding (like tables)
[feature]
wrap calls to get WindowWidth and default to 120 columns if it fails
PowerShell · daxian-dbw · Oct 30, 2017 · SteveL-MSFT · Oct 21, 2017 · SteveL-MSFT
diff --git a/...omation/commands/utility/FormatAndOutput/common/BaseOutputtingCommand.cs b/...omation/commands/utility/FormatAndOutput/common/BaseOutputtingCommand.cs
@@ -921,6 +921,17 @@ internal override void Initialize()
                 }
 
                 int columnsOnTheScreen = this.InnerCommand._lo.ColumnNumber;
+                if (columnsOnTheScreen == int.MaxValue)
diff --git a/test/powershell/Language/Scripting/NativeExecution/NativeStreams.Tests.ps1 b/test/powershell/Language/Scripting/NativeExecution/NativeStreams.Tests.ps1
+            pwsh -c "& { [Console]::Error.WriteLine('$longtext') }" 2>&1 > $testdrive\error.txt
+            $e = Get-Content -Path $testdrive\error.txt
+            $e.Count | Should BeExactly 1
+            $e | Should Match $longtext
diff --git a/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Debug.Tests.ps1 b/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Debug.Tests.ps1
+        $origDebugPref = $DebugPreference
+        $DebugPreference = "Continue"
+        try {
+            $out = Write-Debug $text *>&1
diff --git a/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Debug.Tests.ps1 b/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Debug.Tests.ps1
+        $DebugPreference = "Continue"
+        try {
+            $out = Write-Debug $text *>&1
+            $out | Should Match $text
diff --git a/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Debug.Tests.ps1 b/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Debug.Tests.ps1
+            $DebugPreference = $origDebugPref
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Error.Tests.ps1 b/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Error.Tests.ps1
+        pwsh -c Write-Error -Message $longtext 2>&1 > $testdrive\error.txt
+        $e = Get-Content -Path $testdrive\error.txt
+        $e.Count | Should BeExactly 4
+        $e[0] | Should Match $longtext
diff --git a/.../powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Verbose.Tests.ps1 b/.../powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Verbose.Tests.ps1
+        $origVerbosePref = $VerbosePreference
+        $VerbosePreference = "continue"
+        try {
+            $out = Write-Verbose $text *>&1
diff --git a/.../powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Verbose.Tests.ps1 b/.../powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Write-Verbose.Tests.ps1
+        $VerbosePreference = "continue"
+        try {
+            $out = Write-Verbose $text *>&1
+            $out | Should Match $text
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost/host/msh/ConsoleHostUserInterface.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost/host/msh/ConsoleHostUserInterface.cs
@@ -1248,7 +1206,7 @@ public override void WriteDebugLine(string message)
             else
             {
                 // NTRAID#Windows OS Bugs-1061752-2004/12/15-sburns should read a skin setting here...
diff --git a/...omation/commands/utility/FormatAndOutput/common/BaseOutputtingCommand.cs b/...omation/commands/utility/FormatAndOutput/common/BaseOutputtingCommand.cs
@@ -921,6 +921,18 @@ internal override void Initialize()
                 }
 
                 int columnsOnTheScreen = this.InnerCommand._lo.ColumnNumber;
+                // for tables, we want to make sure we don't end up adding padding to int.MaxValue and default to 120 columns instead