Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > -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 > > > > > > Just a little more info about how de

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-24 Thread Brian Dessent
"Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" wrote: > How does one get ps --forest to work? > > /c> ps --forest > ps: unknown option -- forest > Usage: ps [-aefls] [-u UID] > Report process status Cygwin's ps does not have that option. It's in the ps from linux's procps. The stuff I pasted was as a referen

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > -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 > > > > Just a little more info about how debian does this, in case someone > > wants to flesh this

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave wrote: > > > 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 res

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-24 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Dave Korn wrote: At Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:12 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: process tree, from ps --forest: man man \_ sh -c (echo '.ll 126n'; /usr/bin/zsoelim /tmp/zmanc7tnnh) | \ /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -rLL=126n -rLT=126n \ -Tascii | less \_ /usr/bin/tbl \_ /bin/sh /

RE: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-24 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) > Sent: 24 November 2004 14:12 > At Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:12 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > > On a 130 char wide screen, running man results in the following > > process tree, from ps --forest: > >

RE: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
At Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:12 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: > > On a 130 char wide screen, running man results in the following > process tree, from ps --forest: > > man man > \_ sh -c (echo '.ll 126n'; /usr/bin/zsoelim /tmp/zmanc7tnnh) | \ > /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -rLL=126n -

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave wrote: > 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

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-23 Thread Dave
> - 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

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
gt;. Thanks. > 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"

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:57:53PM -0500, Aaron Miller wrote: >Anyway, thanks again for the information and also for giving me time to >explain what I ought to've made clearer in my first email. Now that we have confirmed that this command works on 27 different varieties of linux and is supposed t

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Aaron Miller
[forgot to reply to list; sorry about that] ... 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 -

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Raye Raskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 6:30 PM Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Raye Raskin wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:35 PM > Subj

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor 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 form

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread 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 manua

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Aaron Miller
Christopher Faylor wrote: 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

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-21 Thread Aaron Miller
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 t

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-21 Thread Aaron Miller
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

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-21 Thread Raye Raskin
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

Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-21 Thread Aaron Miller
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