From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:30:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lgvg8edz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inqklw0d.fsf@dog.fritz.box> (message from Olaf Dietsche on Thu, 15 Dec 2016 22:31:30 +0100)
> From: Olaf Dietsche <olaf--mail.bug-gnu-emacs@olafdietsche.de>
> Cc:25208@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 22:31:30 +0100
>
> This is not a general problem with line truncation. In this case it
> isn't Emacs doing the formatting, but the external program `man`. Emacs
> does so by setting the COLUMNS environment variable before calling man.
>
> Man will then format according to the given width, which is the width of
> the current window before being split in half.
Right, so I did misunderstand. Sorry about that.
> > But Mark says this was fixed, so maybe I don't understand the issue
> > well enough.
>
> Whatever might have been fixed more than two years ago (#17831), it
> doesn't show up in my Emacs (24.5.1, Ubuntu 16.04).
That fix is in Emacs 25.1, not in 24.5, AFAICS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-16 8:30 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
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 [this message]
2016-12-16 10:23 ` Olaf Dietsche
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