Re: Emacs inventing system documentation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2004 23:57:22 +0200
> 
> This code runs before the man page is formatted and displayed, and
> we don't know where the page will actually be displayed, so both
> frame-width and window-width are incorrect.  But still window-width
> is better than frame-width, because it produces more correct results
> in one situation and don't make it worse in another.

``More correct'' might not be good enough: it could be better for the
situations you tried, but we cannot guarantee it is always better.
That's why it is IMHO wrong to use incorrect methods.

So I think we should come up with a different approach, one that
guarantees that the screen width passed to `man' is the correct one.
Could you please try to think about such a different solution?