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 #50 received at 2588 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: <2588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#2588: 23.0.90; Man buffer improperly formatted - wrong width
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 11:45:36 -0800

> >> > One thing we could easily do is not set COLUMNS in the 
> >> > environment if pop-up-frames is being used,
> >> 
> >> Yes, please do that. Please do not set COLUMNS to the 
> >> current `frame-width'.
> >
> > Yidong, is this solution fine with you?
> 
> The width of a pop-up frame has, in general, nothing to do with the
> default value of COLUMNS (or the default value that the formatter
> assumes if COLUMNS is omitted).  So I don't see how this is any
> improvement.

That's why I said "please do *NOT* set COLUMNS to the current frame's width. The
problem is that it is currently being set that way; it should not be.
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