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

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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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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 2588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2588: 23.0.90; Man buffer improperly formatted - wrong width
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:08:49 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> AFAICS, we started setting COLUMNS in the environment because on some
> GNU/Linux system, under X, not setting it would result in over-long
> lines.  To avoid that with pop-up-frames, we could set COLUMNS to the
> value 80.  For a frame that is not yet created, 80 sounds like a
> better default than the width of some other frame/window.

Right, and this handles the case where the selected frame is abnormally
wide.  But suppose the selected frame is the normal width, and has a
width of 200.  The default-to-80-columns would do the wrong thing.

I think we could use default-frame-alist to guess the number of columns.
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