emacs man too many columns

emacs man too many columns

[Brendan Miller]

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?

Re: emacs man too many columns

[Brendan Miller]

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?
>

Re: emacs man too many columns

[Daniel Pittman]

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

[Zhu, Shenli]

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.

Re: emacs man too many columns

[Brendan Miller]

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.
>
>
>