Re: man and screen size

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Harry Henry Gebel <hgebel@home.com> wrote:
>I notice that no matter what size terminal window I run `man` in it appears
>to generate output for 80 column width. This is a little annoying when the
>window is wider than 80 columns; when the window is narrower than 80 it can
>be nearly unreadable. Is there a way to override this behavior?

See bugs #25410 and #53993. It's not yet possible with Debian's man
program; I'll work on it when I've fixed a few more urgent things.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]