Subject: Re: 23.0.90; Man buffer improperly formatted - wrong width

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:22:09 -0500

> M-x set-variable RET pop-up-frames RET t
> 
> Resize the current frame so that it is, say, only 30 chars wide.
> 
> M-x man RET bash RET
> 
> Buffer *Man bash* is shown in a new frame. The frame has the usual
> default width of 80 chars.  But the text of the buffer is formatted to
> be only 30 chars wide.

Doing what you want is not a trivial to man.el, I think.  You can change
the `Man-width' options if you want to fix the width.