From 992d014dde531eb09782888bbf8f04202ce927fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:03:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Man-getpage-in-background): Set width in environment. --- lisp/man.el | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el index 01451341b3f..a7b0ff16fa1 100644 --- a/lisp/man.el +++ b/lisp/man.el @@ -596,6 +596,23 @@ all sections related to a subject, put something appropriate into the (default-directory "/")) ;; Prevent any attempt to use display terminal fanciness. (setenv "TERM" "dumb") + ;; In Debian Woody, at least, we get overlong lines under X + ;; unless COLUMNS or MANWIDTH is set. This isn't a problem on + ;; a tty. man(1) says: + ;; MANWIDTH + ;; If $MANWIDTH is set, its value is used as the line + ;; length for which manual pages should be formatted. + ;; If it is not set, manual pages will be formatted + ;; with a line length appropriate to the current ter- + ;; minal (using an ioctl(2) if available, the value of + ;; $COLUMNS, or falling back to 80 characters if nei- + ;; ther is available). + (if window-system + (unless (or (getenv "MANWIDTH") (getenv "COLUMNS")) + ;; This isn't strictly correct, since we don't know how + ;; the page will actually be displayed, but it seems + ;; reasonable. + (setenv "COLUMNS" (number-to-string (frame-width))))) (if (fboundp 'start-process) (set-process-sentinel (start-process manual-program buffer "sh" "-c" @@ -659,7 +676,7 @@ See the variable `Man-notify-method' for the different notification behaviors." ))) (defun Man-softhyphen-to-minus () - ;; \255 is some kind of dash in Latin-N. Versions of Debian man, at + ;; \255 is SOFT HYPHEN in Latin-N. Versions of Debian man, at ;; least, emit it even when not in a Latin-N locale. (unless (eq t (compare-strings "latin-" 0 nil current-language-environment 0 6 t)) -- 2.39.2