From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9084: 24.0.50; displaying man pages splits the window and formats the text for the full width of the whole frame rather than for the width of the window the text is displayed in, which is only 1/2 the width of the frame Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:08:04 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87hb6kcx7z.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <878vs0d10o.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <8762n4e5gy.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4E1FEC9C.2090102@gmx.at> <87aacerzv3.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87tyalilpf.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87zkkdouje.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310945454 9171 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2011 23:30:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:30:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9084@debbugs.gnu.org To: lee Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 18 01:30:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QianO-0002rx-2k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:30:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56644 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QianN-00020a-2C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:30:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39946) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qialm-0001gj-7A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qiali-0004nT-Nl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:52664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qiali-0004nM-Ko for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qialh-0000gu-Nb; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:29:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:29:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9084 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9084-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9084.13109453042609 (code B ref 9084); Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:29:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9084) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Jul 2011 23:28:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qial5-0000g0-10 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:28:23 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qial2-0000fY-6E for 9084@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D771E6E8052; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3927451C0AC; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:28:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87zkkdouje.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> (lee@yun.yagibdah.de's message of "Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:23:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:29:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:49370 Archived-At: > To me, it would make sense if it did or if I could make it so that it > does, for example by specifying a negative integer like -75 to have the > page formatted 75 characters wide /and/ the width of the window adjusted > accordingly. Imho, there isn't much point in making the window wider > than the text it displays when viewing manpages. You are asking for functionality that is not specific to manpages. Typical text width in all buffers that I see is no more than 75 characters: in Dired buffers, in Info buffers, in source code buffers, etc. Usually there is no point in making the window wider than the text displayed in all these buffers. I think the width of the window and other parameters of window configurations should be specified at more general level. > When your window is 230 characters wide, you could set Man-width to 70 > and display three pages side by side? There was a plan to implement functionality where you can define arbitrary window layouts, e.g. you will be able to define a layout to display three manpage dedicated buffers side by side, etc. > Since there's the usual man command you run from a shell, it's not too > obvious that "M-x man" is something very different. `M-x man' is not much different. For the usual man command you can define the width by the environment variable `MANWIDTH' or `COLUMNS'. And for `M-x man' there is a similar option `Man-width'.