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From: | Chong Yidong |
Subject: | bug#2588: 23.0.90; Man buffer improperly formatted - wrong width |
Date: | Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:45:51 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > We could try to fix this: I think it would actually be desirable to pop > up the frame immediately and then asynchronously fill it as man's output > comes in. > > This said, we could also just remove the COLUMNS business. > Who introduced this COLUMNS thingy and what was the motivation for it? This is explained in the code comments: it's required to ensure that the output of the manpage formatter has the same number of columns as the Emacs window/frame.
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