Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <41A1826D.30107@connext.net> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:08:45 -0500 From: Aaron Miller User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Raye Raskin CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be References: <41A17406 DOT 9050200 AT connext DOT net> <000601c4d052$32698b90$5709a443 AT c40624a> In-Reply-To: <000601c4d052$32698b90$5709a443@c40624a> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-connext-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support for more information X-connext-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-connext-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=2.141, required 4.5, BAYES_00 -4.90, RCVD_IN_DSBL 0.71, RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 2.60, RCVD_IN_NJABL 0.10, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP 3.54, RCVD_IN_SORBS 0.10) X-connext-MailScanner-SpamScore: ss X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam 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. -- 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/