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Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:50:57PM -0500, Aaron Miller wrote:
Thanks for the pointer, and I'll ask on the cygwin-xfree list as well.
It's not really a query about xterm, though: using a shortcut that
starts bash in a standard Windows command-shell which is 100 columns
wide, if I ask for a manual page, I still get it formatted to eighty
columns. I mentioned xterms since that's what I prefer to use, but
it's not by any means a problem exclusive to those.
Ok, you and three or four other people made this point after I blocked
the subject here because I thought it was xterm specific.
Instead, it isn't even cygwin-specific. All of my man pages are
formatted to 80 columns on linux, too. If you think about how man
works, where it caches the formatted output in a separate directory
it is easy to see why that is the case.
cgf
Dear Christopher,
There has to be a better way than refusing emails just because
the word xterm is in the body of the message.
I really don't like doing (granted, just a little) research and
replying to a problem in a effort to help out just to get it
moderated into the bit bucket because someone in power thinks
the subject taints the purity of the cygwin mailing list.
Assuming this message isn't blocked as well, here is my reply
that was bounced earlier:
According to the man man page, $MANWIDTH should address your
precise issue, but on my system setting $MANWIDTH has no effect.
I guess this makes it a bug. Either in the doc or the bin!
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