> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Igor Pechtchanski" > > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Raye Raskin wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Christopher Faylor" > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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
Attached is a patch to man.conf, providing a (hacked) solution allowing MANWIDTH to work (here at least). Only intended as a short term fixup for those who need it :). Will need some work if you want it to cope with term resizing. Thanks to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2003-03/msg00038.html Enjoy, Dave. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
--- man.conf.default 2004-09-26 18:36:22.000000000 +0100 +++ man.conf 2004-11-23 21:32:16.000000000 +0000 @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ # causes problems, add the -c option to TROFF, NROFF. # TROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc -NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null +NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc -rLL=`echo $MANWIDTH`n -rLT=`echo $MANWIDTH`n 2>/dev/null EQN /usr/bin/eqn -Tps NEQN /usr/bin/eqn -Tutf8 TBL /usr/bin/tbl
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