Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-15 Thread Jochen Sprickerhof
* Markus Wichmann [2021-10-14 20:24]: On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 12:28:52PM -0400, Greg Reagle wrote: FYI Useful, but a lot of wasted screen space on my monitor: man dwm MUCH better! I see the entire man page: tcvt -c 4 man dwm You know, if you were trying to shill the program, you m

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-15 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 21/10/15 07:03, Martin Tournoij wrote: > Note that mandoc has a default of 78 if not set; GNU man (and maybe some > others?) do indeed take up the full width by default, but mandoc won't take up > more than 78. I've mostly used GNU man, and from my briefly trying other versions of man I didn't

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-15 Thread Rudy Dellomas (dther)
On 21/10/15 06:23AM, Greg Reagle wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, at 9:56 PM, Rudy Dellomas (dther) wrote: > > [...] > > `tmux new ';' splitw -h man dwm` > > No, this does not do what tcvt does. Have you actually tried it? Nor does > the MANWIDTH variable. > You're right, sorry, my mistake. I r

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-15 Thread Greg Reagle
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, at 9:56 PM, Rudy Dellomas (dther) wrote: > `tcvt` is a python terminal multiplexer, which is a bit excessive for the > purpose of saving terminal columns. Even forgoing that GNU man has > $MANWIDTH, why not just use vertical split tmux? It's faster (written in > C) and is much

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-15 Thread Sebastian LaVine
On Thu Oct 14, 2021 at 9:56 PM EDT, Rudy Dellomas (dther) wrote: > [...] why not just use vertical split tmux? It's faster (written in > C) and is much more versatile. This would do more or less the same: > > `tmux new ';' splitw -h man dwm` For me, this command splits into two shells, only one of

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-14 Thread Rudy Dellomas (dther)
On 21/10/14 12:28PM, Greg Reagle wrote: > FYI > > Useful, but a lot of wasted screen space on my monitor: > man dwm > > MUCH better! I see the entire man page: > tcvt -c 4 man dwm > `tcvt` is a python terminal multiplexer, which is a bit excessive for the purpose of saving terminal col

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-14 Thread Greg Reagle
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, at 7:20 PM, Martin Tournoij wrote: > I wonder if there's a way to do the same with tmux 🤔 I had the same question. Let me/us know if you find out. > Also suspect you can get pretty close with far less code and curses > shizzle. I'll have to try some stuff later. Again, le

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-14 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021, at 03:55, Greg Reagle wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, at 2:24 PM, Markus Wichmann wrote: >> You know, if you were trying to shill the program, you might have done >> better if you had provided the homepage. I searched for "tcvt", and all > > Shill--I wish. I get no money from

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-14 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021, at 04:24, Страхиња Радић wrote: > On 21/10/14 12:28, Greg Reagle wrote: >> Useful, but a lot of wasted screen space on my monitor: >> man dwm > > If MANWIDTH is unset (default), man page will take all of the available width > of > the terminal, unless: Note that mandoc h

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-14 Thread Greg Reagle
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, at 2:24 PM, Markus Wichmann wrote: > You know, if you were trying to shill the program, you might have done > better if you had provided the homepage. I searched for "tcvt", and all Shill--I wish. I get no money from people using it. Just trying to be helpful. http://subdi

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-14 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 21/10/14 12:28, Greg Reagle wrote: > Useful, but a lot of wasted screen space on my monitor: > man dwm If MANWIDTH is unset (default), man page will take all of the available width of the terminal, unless: - COLUMNS is also somehow unset (it is set by most sane shells by default), or - ioc

Re: [dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-14 Thread Markus Wichmann
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 12:28:52PM -0400, Greg Reagle wrote: > FYI > > Useful, but a lot of wasted screen space on my monitor: > man dwm > > MUCH better! I see the entire man page: > tcvt -c 4 man dwm > You know, if you were trying to shill the program, you might have done better if you h

[dev] tcvt: very useful for seeing more at once

2021-10-14 Thread Greg Reagle
FYI Useful, but a lot of wasted screen space on my monitor: man dwm MUCH better! I see the entire man page: tcvt -c 4 man dwm