On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:47:35PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:14:48AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:50:54AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > The '--pager cat' continues to be unnecessary here; $COLUMNS is still > > > > honoured. I prefer using the special-purpose $MANWIDTH for this, though. > > > > > > > > Narrowing the page does work even if man's output is a terminal. > > > > > > Looking at the code, a clarification: narrowing the page works if you > > > use $MANWIDTH to do it, but not if you use $COLUMNS. It might be > > > > Neither works; man-db 2.3.20-18.woody.4. > > Make sure you have no saved cat pages and try again? (A different line > length *should* bypass cat pages, but ...)
| $ ls /var/cache/man/cat1/ | pon.1.gz | vlock.1.gz | zsh.1.gz | $ COLUMNS=30 man man | [Standard-width appears] | $ COLUMNS=30 man man | less | [Yes, now it's 30-column wide]
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