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Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be
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 to 80 columns wide no matter how wide my xterm
window is. This is, as you may imagine, somewhat irritating, and I'm
at my wits' end in trying to find where to fix it.
Has anyone any advice to offer? I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!
-- Aaron
Try making your font smaller so the man page width still fits your
narrow xterm.
Thanks, but that's the exact backwards of what I'm looking for; I
could've been clearer in my original message. The command line with
which I start my usual xterm sets it to 120 columns, and I frequently
size it up from there. This seems to be the usual mode of operation
under Unix; for example, when I've ssh'd into a Linux box from a Cygwin
xterm, manual pages are formatted to the terminal width instead of a
hard eighty(ish) columns.
Thanks again.
...and, wow, is my grammar lousy tonight, so
s/This seems to/Formatting manual page text to window size seems to/
Thank you.
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