I noticed the wrapping issue while testing out the 'bad fruit' fix,
then the other things while fixing it.
1) inventory entries too wide for narrow persistent inventory window
wrapped without any control; normally can't be seen except for the
last entry when the list is short enough to leave at least one line
available; it looked fairly reasonable with window borders Off, but
when On the last char of the first line and first char of second
line were clobbered by the border box;
2) when there were too many entries to fit within the height, those
after the last one which fit were appended to it for borders Off
(or written on bottom line and then overwritten by the border box
for borders On); noticed because the selector letter is highlighted
with inverse video, even when written at an unexpected place;
3) suppress the inverse video hightlighting of inventory letters since
they can't be selected from that 'menu';
4) for borders Off, the top line was left blank as if a border was
going to be drawn there;
5) since the entries are truncated due to the narrow window (on a
modest sized display), strip off leading "a", "an", or "the" prefix
for inventory entries (written to curses perm_invent window only);
lets a couple more characters of more interesting stuff be seen.