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bug#2588: 23.0.90; Man buffer improperly formatted - wrong width
From: |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#2588: 23.0.90; Man buffer improperly formatted - wrong width |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:02:41 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>> width of 200. The default-to-80-columns would do the wrong thing.
>>
>> Text formatted for 200-columns is basically illegible. So I find it
>> harsh to call it "the wrong thing" to use 80 columns in this context.
>
> As far as I can tell from this thread, most people agreed that Man
> didn't do the right thing here, but nobody wanted to fix it, since Emacs
> 23.1 was too close.
>
> Did anything more happen here afterwards? Is this still buggy?
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>> Did anything more happen here afterwards? Is this still buggy?
>
> Is this the same as bug#9084?
And it is, I think. Is there a particular reason why we don't just use
`frame-width' in these circumstances?
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