A bit of technical clarification:
Terminal emulators seem to default to lines ending in an explicit newline.
It's the implicit overflow (printing a letter that wraps to the next line)
which makes the previous line soft-wrapped, and a \e[K (clear to EOL) and
perhaps a few other similar sequences (e
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE
