Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

[Aaron Miller <amiller at connext dot net>]

Aaron Miller wrote:
> Raye Raskin wrote:
>
> > > Hi! I've just been installing Cygwin on a new machine and getting 
> > > everything into the shape I like it, but there's something I can't 
> > > seem to figure out how to fix.
> > >
> > > I'm running XWin all the time so I can use xterms, but manual pages 
> > > seem to get formatted to 80 columns wide no matter how wide my xterm 
> > > window is. This is, as you may imagine, somewhat irritating, and I'm 
> > > at my wits' end in trying to find where to fix it.
> > >
> > > Has anyone any advice to offer? I'd greatly appreciate it.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > -- Aaron
> >
> >
> >
> > Try making your font smaller so the man page width still fits your
> > narrow xterm.
>
> Thanks, but that's the exact backwards of what I'm looking for; I 
> could've been clearer in my original message. The command line with 
> which I start my usual xterm sets it to 120 columns, and I frequently 
> size it up from there. This seems to be the usual mode of operation 
> under Unix; for example, when I've ssh'd into a Linux box from a Cygwin 
> xterm, manual pages are formatted to the terminal width instead of a 
> hard eighty(ish) columns.
>
> Thanks again.

...and, wow, is my grammar lousy tonight, so
s/This seems to/Formatting manual page text to window size seems to/

Thank you.

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