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ManDay
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 Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:27 pm Post subject: man pages in terminal |
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Does anyone know why (since forever) manpages are broken wrongly if the terminal is between 66 and 77 characters wide? Example:
| Code: | Pgawk is the profiling version of gawk. It is identical in
every way
to gawk, except that programs run more slowly, and it au
tomatically
produces an execution profile in the file awkprof.out when
done. See
the --profile option, below.
Dgawk is an awk debugger. Instead of running the program d
irectly, it
loads the AWK source code and then prompts for debugging
commands.
Unlike gawk and pgawk, dgawk only processes AWK program sour
ce provided
with the -f option. The debugger is documented in GAWK: Eff
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NeddySeagoon
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ManDay,
Real terminals are hardwired to be 80 columns.
man has been around since *NIX was invented, if not before. Its a feature.
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Anon-E-moose
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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From the man pages  about man
| Code: | MANWIDTH
If $MANWIDTH is set, its value is used as the line length for which manual pages should be formatted.
If it is not set, manual pages will be formatted with a line length appropriate to the current terminal
(using an ioctl(2) if available, the value of $COLUMNS, or falling back to 80 characters if neither is
available). Cat pages will only be saved when the default formatting can be used, that is when the
terminal line length is between 66 and 80 characters. |
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ManDay
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | ManDay,
Real terminals are hardwired to be 80 columns.
man has been around since *NIX was invented, if not before. Its a feature. |
I fail to see how this relates to the numbers 66 and 77, below and above which everything renders just fine (admitted, above 77 is perhaps just a coincidence due to margin and is technically above 80). Yet, if it works for 65, why does it not work for 67?
Anon: So the correct solution would be what? (And why is it not the default?)
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