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bug#25208: 24.5; man output uses wrong width
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#25208: 24.5; man output uses wrong width |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:30:32 +0200 |
> From: Olaf Dietsche <olaf--mail.bug-gnu-emacs@olafdietsche.de>
> Cc:25208@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 22:31:30 +0100
>
> This is not a general problem with line truncation. In this case it
> isn't Emacs doing the formatting, but the external program `man`. Emacs
> does so by setting the COLUMNS environment variable before calling man.
>
> Man will then format according to the given width, which is the width of
> the current window before being split in half.
Right, so I did misunderstand. Sorry about that.
> > But Mark says this was fixed, so maybe I don't understand the issue
> > well enough.
>
> Whatever might have been fixed more than two years ago (#17831), it
> doesn't show up in my Emacs (24.5.1, Ubuntu 16.04).
That fix is in Emacs 25.1, not in 24.5, AFAICS.