Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:32:58 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be Message-ID: <20041122153258.GE25781@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <41A17406.9050200@connext.net> <000601c4d052$32698b90$5709a443@c40624a> <41A1826D.30107@connext.net> <41A1849F.7050709@connext.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41A1849F.7050709@connext.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/