From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Miller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs man too many columns Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:34:49 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269763036 1196 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2010 07:57:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:57:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 09:57:12 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvnMt-0006ev-9G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:57:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40588 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvnMs-0000DR-HH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nvn1U-0004Ed-0B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52052 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nvn1J-0004Db-VD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvn1I-000084-1g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:34:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:34700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvn1G-00007r-ST for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: by vws20 with SMTP id 20so5260335vws.0 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.220.71.135 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:34:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Original-Received: by 10.220.108.27 with SMTP id d27mr1971299vcp.232.1269761689940; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:34:49 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72499 Archived-At: Ah, never mind, the MANWIDTH environment variable seems to handle it. On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:24 AM, 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? >