Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:51:45 -0600, David J. Weller-Fahy dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com wrote: * Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr [2011-01-19 02:57 -0500]: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-20 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 19 Jan 2011 at 21:36:19 PST David Kelly wrote: On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:51 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: [...] That did the job, but made `man -k`, which my fingers find familiar, unusable. I remembered you were running a CURRENT snapshot, so figured I'd check the difference between

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:02:56 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: In ancient times man was originally a shell script. What is old is new again. Is this a consequence of the move to mdocml instead of groff? No, we are still using groff's groff_mdoc(7) package for authoring

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-20 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr [2011-01-20 06:03 -0500]: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:51:45 -0600, David J. Weller-Fahy dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com wrote: Regardless, I ended up finding two solutions. Nice! I'll check with our groff maintainer(s) to see if they

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-19 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr [2011-01-19 02:57 -0500]: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Set the 'columns' attribute of your tty: stty columns 60 man xxx

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-19 Thread David Kelly
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:51 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: [...] That did the job, but made `man -k`, which my fingers find familiar, unusable. I remembered you were running a CURRENT snapshot, so figured I'd check the difference between man in HEAD and 8.1-RELEASE... WOW! The man in HEAD