Subject: Re: bug#2588: 23.0.90; Man buffer improperly formatted - wrong width

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:23:49 +0200

> From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
> Cc: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <[email-masked]>,  <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:06:02 -0400
> 
> Setting COLUMNS to the frame width does the right thing most of the
> time, and covers more cases than a hardcoded value.  It's true that it
> can fail for the pop-up-frames case, and we can work around that by
> using default-frame-alist.
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Shouldn't this be pop-up-frame-alist instead?

Anyway, I wouldn't go for such adventures before Emacs 23.1 is
released.  Until then, I'd simply not set COLUMNS when pop-up-frames
is non-nil.