GNU bug report logs - #2588
23.0.90; Man buffer improperly formatted - wrong width

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 9084, 17831

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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Message #178 received at 2588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
	2588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2588: 23.0.90; Man buffer improperly formatted - wrong width
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:51:44 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> 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?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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