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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
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 21:23:49 +0200

> From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
> Cc: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  <2588 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
> 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.
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