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-rw-r--r--cmd2/cmd2.py2
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diff --git a/cmd2/cmd2.py b/cmd2/cmd2.py
index cff73f13..f143d7b3 100644
--- a/cmd2/cmd2.py
+++ b/cmd2/cmd2.py
@@ -630,7 +630,9 @@ class Cmd(cmd.Cmd):
:param end: string appended after the end of the message if not already present, default a newline
:param chop: True -> causes lines longer than the screen width to be chopped (truncated) rather than wrapped
- truncated text is still accessible by scrolling with the right & left arrow keys
+ - chopping is ideal for displaying wide tabular data as is done in utilities like pgcli
False -> causes lines longer than the screen width to wrap to the next line
+ - wrapping is ideal when you want to avoid users having to use horizontal scrolling
WARNING: On Windows, the text always wraps regardless of what the chop argument is set to
"""
import subprocess