Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:33:15 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to adjust man page line length Message-ID: <20110118043315.GJ75125@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com> References: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 17), David J. Weller-Fahy said: > To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to > automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly > easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal gymnastics > I may not be willing to perform. For FreeBSD-originated manpages, it looks like the line length is taken from the .ll and .lt definitions in /usr/share/tmac/mdoc/doc-nroff . If you comment them out, you get the groff default width of 6 inches. I don't know if groff can pull values from environment variables or the physical TTY. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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