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At 2023-04-11T11:39:11+0200, Dirk Gouders wrote:
[I wrote:]
> > 4. A habit has grown up among man(1) programs and pagers to call
> > for and support, respectively, a "blank line squeezing" feature: any
> > runs of more than one blank line are condensed to
Hi Branden,
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> At 2023-04-10T21:05:24+0200, Dirk Gouders wrote:
>> This relies on the assumption that horizontal resizes don't create or
>> delete emty lines and it still has the weakness that manual pages
>> (e.g. bash(1)) contain large areas without empty lines but
Hi Branden,
> see man pages as they would have formatted for Western Electric
> Teletype machines, which printed to long spools of paper with 66 lines
> to the nominal page.
In case it isn't obvious, it was normal for teletypes and line printers
to print six lines per inch onto letter-height fan-
Hi Dirk,
At 2023-04-10T21:05:24+0200, Dirk Gouders wrote:
> This relies on the assumption that horizontal resizes don't create or
> delete emty lines and it still has the weakness that manual pages
> (e.g. bash(1)) contain large areas without empty lines but it's
> definitely better than just stay
Hi Dirk,
On 4/10/23 21:05, Dirk Gouders wrote:
>> For something simpler, you could just count words since the start of the
>> section divided by total words in the section. That should be fast, and
>> I expect, also quite precise. Hyphenating might work against you on
>> this, but on average it
Hi Alex,
Alejandro Colomar writes:
> On 4/8/23 00:09, Dirk Gouders wrote:
>>> Maybe it could be done with .SH and .SS. The heuristics to find these
>>> are simple. It wouldn't be very precise, but it could try to find the
>>> closest (only upwards) (sub)section heading. With some luck, .TP wo
Hi,
> > > (1) what part of the screen was the reader actually looking at?
less(1) has -j; that would be a good start.
> > > (2) how is the pager supposed to know how to map any given
> > > location on the screen back to a place in the unrendered source
> > > document so it can be accurately foun
Alejandro Colomar writes:
> Hi Branden,
>
> On 4/7/23 04:18, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> At 2023-04-06T03:10:59+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>>> Hmm, now that I think, it's probably an issue of coordinating man(1)
>>> and less(1). I sometimes wish that when I resize a window where I'm
>>> re
Hi Dirk,
On 4/8/23 00:09, Dirk Gouders wrote:
>> Maybe it could be done with .SH and .SS. The heuristics to find these
>> are simple. It wouldn't be very precise, but it could try to find the
>> closest (only upwards) (sub)section heading. With some luck, .TP would
>> also be helpful.
>
> Yes,
Hi Branden,
On 4/7/23 04:18, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2023-04-06T03:10:59+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> Hmm, now that I think, it's probably an issue of coordinating man(1)
>> and less(1). I sometimes wish that when I resize a window where I'm
>> reading a man page, it would reformat t
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