Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:59:22 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED] Message-ID: <xeia39onvl9h.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20110120045145.GL90952@weller-fahy.com> (David J. Weller-Fahy's message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:51:45 -0600") References: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com> <xeia7he29lxq.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20110118182918.GA14251@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <xeia1v49jmub.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20110120045145.GL90952@weller-fahy.com>
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--=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:51:45 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy" <dave-lists-freebsd-questions@weller-fahy.com> wrote: > * Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> [2011-01-19 02:57 -0500]: >> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> >> Set the 'columns' attribute of your tty: >> >> stty columns 60 >> >> man xxx >> > >> > *Should*? You posted without trying it? (I tried, did not work). > >> 'Should' as in "I tried it here and it worked". I'm running a recent >> CURRENT snapshot, but I don't think this affects the results. What >> does 'stty -a' show in your terminal? What is your shell's >> environment (e.g. the value of COLUMNS)? What is your PAGER? etc. > > Well... that was an interesting night of experimentation. Thanks for > the idea about stty (which I didn't know about), because otherwise I > might have gone mad (apparently COLUMNS isn't set in the environment of > a shell script... which makes sense when one thinks about it). > > Regardless, I ended up finding two solutions. Nice! I'll check with our groff maintainer(s) to see if they have plans to MFC the latest man/groff stuff. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk04I5oACgkQ1g+UGjGGA7bqqACfd79XEhiIZLiViGGElu2+JqLk e8cAn3aLFkyPhoBjnUTcVN2tAKseqoVf =PNnt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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