[wellylug] Man-page formatting

Nick Jensen nickspoon at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 09:57:00 NZST 2005


Thanks very much for all the advice.

> Given that you report that you can widen the window to make it "display
> okay", but need to do this each time around, I'd say that it's most
> likely that the correct width is being detected (from the tty settings),
> but that for some reason the way it is formatted is not displaying
> correctly within the detected width.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I figured, I just couldn't work out what
the reason was.

>  (Incidentally you can always
> narrow the window again after "man" exits, to avoid the "ever wider"
> window problem.)

Of course, and I do, but I generally only remember //after// I open a
man page, not before.

Thanks Ewen, I'll have a play with some of these suggestions tonight.

Nick




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