Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/22/10:33:02
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.
cgf
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