GNU bug report logs - #17831
24.4.50; bad default value for `Man-width'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 2588, 9084

Found in version 24.0.50

Fixed in version 24.4.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: 17831 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17831: 24.4.50; bad default value for `Man-width'
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:21:47 +0800

On 2014-06-23 08:53 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Problem with it, is that currently we do "fill the buffer with
> half-processed text; finish formatting; display", so if we only move the
> "display" part, the user will see (temporarily) the half-processed text.

Indeed. On the other hand simply change the default value to 80 always
gives me a more readable output. But this doesn't fix the wrong
behaviour when using window width.

Leo
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