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From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
To: Olaf Dietsche <olaf--mail.bug-gnu-emacs@olafdietsche.de>
Cc: 25208@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25208: 24.5; man output uses wrong width
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:57:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgvht9ix.fsf@udel.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2b1pcg2.fsf@dog.fritz.box> (Olaf Dietsche's message of "Thu,  15 Dec 2016 14:08:13 +0100")

Olaf Dietsche <olaf--mail.bug-gnu-emacs@olafdietsche.de> writes:

> I use a wide display and Emacs full-screen.
>
> - emacs -Q
> - Make the Emacs frame full-screen, so it is wider than high and shows
>   only one window.
> - M-x man RET ps RET -- any command works
>
> Now the frame will be split into two windows side by side, one showing
> the man page of `ps`. The man page will contain long lines, which are
> truncated instead of wrapped around. You can see the whole lines, when
> you scroll horizontally, of course.
>
> This will not happen, if the frame is already split horizontally in two
> equal wide windows. When you move the vertical divider to the left or
> right and invoke another man command, you can see, that man always uses
> the width of the starting window instead of the target (displaying)
> window.

This was fixed before the latest release in a4b0fffe25. See the bugs
mentioned in this commit (Bug#2588, bug#5054, bug#9084, bug#17831).





  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-15 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-15 13:08 bug#25208: 24.5; man output uses wrong width Olaf Dietsche
2016-12-15 16:57 ` Mark Oteiza [this message]
2016-12-15 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-15 17:20   ` Olaf Dietsche
2016-12-15 19:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-15 21:31       ` Olaf Dietsche
2016-12-16  8:30         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-16 10:23           ` Olaf Dietsche

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