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Re: man files to text editor



On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:50:54AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > > Now we want the lines narrower than the default 80 characters (I guess
> > > this won't work if man(1) is connected to the terminal, so the pipe is
> > > vital here (that's why we use cat(1) as a pager--to force piping).
> > > 
> > > $ env COLUMNS=70 man --pager cat --ascii foo | col -b > text-filename
> > 
> > The '--pager cat' continues to be unnecessary here; $COLUMNS is still
> > honoured. I prefer using the special-purpose $MANWIDTH for this, though.
> > 
> > Narrowing the page does work even if man's output is a terminal.
> 
> Looking at the code, a clarification: narrowing the page works if you
> use $MANWIDTH to do it, but not if you use $COLUMNS. It might be

Neither works; man-db 2.3.20-18.woody.4.

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