Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be
Aaron Miller
amiller@connext.net
Mon Nov 22 23:51:00 GMT 2004
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:18:07AM -0500, Aaron Miller wrote:
>
>>Aaron Miller wrote:
>>
>>>Raye Raskin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Hi! I've just been installing Cygwin on a new machine and getting
>>>>>everything into the shape I like it, but there's something I can't
>>>>>seem to figure out how to fix.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm running XWin all the time so I can use xterms, but manual pages
>>>>>seem to get formatted to 80 columns wide no matter how wide my xterm
>>>>>window is. This is, as you may imagine, somewhat irritating, and I'm
>>>>>at my wits' end in trying to find where to fix it.
>>>>>
>>>>>Has anyone any advice to offer? I'd greatly appreciate it.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>-- Aaron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Try making your font smaller so the man page width still fits your
>>>>narrow xterm.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks, but that's the exact backwards of what I'm looking for; I
>>>could've been clearer in my original message. The command line with
>>>which I start my usual xterm sets it to 120 columns, and I frequently
>>>size it up from there. This seems to be the usual mode of operation
>>>under Unix; for example, when I've ssh'd into a Linux box from a Cygwin
>>>xterm, manual pages are formatted to the terminal width instead of a
>>>hard eighty(ish) columns.
>>>
>>>Thanks again.
>>
>>...and, wow, is my grammar lousy tonight, so
>>s/This seems to/Formatting manual page text to window size seems to/
>
>
> We have a mailing list for discussing x issues - cygwin-xfree . Please use
> this mailing list for queries regarding xterm. The xterm developer actually
> follows this list.
>
> As a wild guess, however, I'm wondering if eval `resize -s` would fix your
> problems.
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.
I tried 'eval `resize -s`', but that didn't help me any; the problem
isn't in getting the terminal size to be recognized in general, but
rather in getting specifically the 'man' command to recognize it.
Thanks again.
-- Aaron
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