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 Message-ID: <000501c4d107$993b40b0$5709a443@c40624a> From: "Raye Raskin" To: References: <41A17406.9050200@connext.net> <000601c4d052$32698b90$5709a443@c40624a> <41A1826D.30107@connext.net> <41A1849F.7050709@connext.net> <20041122153258.GE25781@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <41A27B61.8060707@connext.net> <20041123013542.GC3409@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <000d01c4d0fe$4dafe460$5709a443@c40624a> Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:53:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Pechtchanski" To: "Raye Raskin" Cc: Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 6:30 PM Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Raye Raskin wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Christopher Faylor" >> To: > > . Thanks. > >> 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. >> >> 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! > > Well, that's not a full bug report, since man uses a cached cat page if > it's present. So, unless your system doesn't have the cat directories, > you need to run "man -c" to force regeneration of cat pages. That said, I > confirm that "MANWIDTH=20 man -c man" still produces an 80-column manpage. > But then, hey, it doesn't work on Linux (RedHat 9) either. We must be > misreading the man manpage. :-) > Igor I tried man on my SuSE 9.1 Linux and it (1) follows the size of the xterm automatically and (2) follows the $MANWIDTH directive as well. R -- 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/