[wellylug] Man-page formatting

[David Antliff]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Grant McLean wrote:
> The man command is probably formatting things based on the value in the
> $COLUMNS environment variable.
>
> When you're running bash and you resize the window, bash gets a signal
> and updates $COLUMNS, but ...
>
> If you're in another program in the text window such as man/less/vi, the
> foreground program gets the window change signal and bash doesn't, so
> when you get back to the shell, the value of $COLUMNS won't match the
> window size.

You could play around with this:

The signal is SIGWINCH.

To enable dynamic resizing:
$ shopt -s checkwinsize

Not sure if that will work in a Linux console however since it's not 
meant to resize...

Hope this helps... somehow...


-- 
David.