* emacs man too many columns
@ 2010-03-28 7:24 Brendan Miller
2010-03-28 7:34 ` Brendan Miller
2010-03-28 8:59 ` Zhu, Shenli
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From: Brendan Miller @ 2010-03-28 7:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
When I use M-x man to display a man page, it is typically too many
columns... I want the man page to display in 80 columns, as that's
what I have my windows sized to.
I'm used to man "just working" inside a terminal emulator... is there
some setting to force 80 column output?
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* Re: emacs man too many columns
2010-03-28 7:24 emacs man too many columns Brendan Miller
@ 2010-03-28 7:34 ` Brendan Miller
2010-03-28 10:49 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-03-28 8:59 ` Zhu, Shenli
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Brendan Miller @ 2010-03-28 7:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Ah, never mind, the MANWIDTH environment variable seems to handle it.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> wrote:
> When I use M-x man to display a man page, it is typically too many
> columns... I want the man page to display in 80 columns, as that's
> what I have my windows sized to.
>
> I'm used to man "just working" inside a terminal emulator... is there
> some setting to force 80 column output?
>
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* Re: emacs man too many columns
2010-03-28 7:34 ` Brendan Miller
@ 2010-03-28 10:49 ` Daniel Pittman
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From: Daniel Pittman @ 2010-03-28 10:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> wrote:
>> When I use M-x man to display a man page, it is typically too many
>> columns... I want the man page to display in 80 columns, as that's
>> what I have my windows sized to.
>>
>> I'm used to man "just working" inside a terminal emulator... is there
>> some setting to force 80 column output?
>
> Ah, never mind, the MANWIDTH environment variable seems to handle it.
There is also `Man-width' in Emacs to address the same requirement. Most of
the variables related to man are hidden with an initial cap to make it easier
for M-x man <RET> to do the expected thing.
Daniel
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* Re: emacs man too many columns
2010-03-28 7:24 emacs man too many columns Brendan Miller
2010-03-28 7:34 ` Brendan Miller
@ 2010-03-28 8:59 ` Zhu, Shenli
2010-04-01 3:47 ` Brendan Miller
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Zhu, Shenli @ 2010-03-28 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 03/28/2010 03:24 PM, Brendan Miller wrote:
> When I use M-x man to display a man page, it is typically too many
> columns... I want the man page to display in 80 columns, as that's
> what I have my windows sized to.
>
> I'm used to man "just working" inside a terminal emulator... is there
> some setting to force 80 column output?
>
>
>
There is another M-x woman.
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* Re: emacs man too many columns
2010-03-28 8:59 ` Zhu, Shenli
@ 2010-04-01 3:47 ` Brendan Miller
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Brendan Miller @ 2010-04-01 3:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zhu, Shenli; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
M-x woman doesn't seem to format a number of pages correctly, such as
socket(7), so I don't use it.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Zhu, Shenli <zhushenli2@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/28/2010 03:24 PM, Brendan Miller wrote:
>>
>> When I use M-x man to display a man page, it is typically too many
>> columns... I want the man page to display in 80 columns, as that's
>> what I have my windows sized to.
>>
>> I'm used to man "just working" inside a terminal emulator... is there
>> some setting to force 80 column output?
>>
>>
>>
>
> There is another M-x woman.
>
>
>
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