On 03/06/2014 09:38 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 06Mar2014 16:19, lee <lee(a)yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> writes:
>> I'm running F20 on gnome3 desktop,
>> and I see some weird effect in the man command (entered in a gnome
>> terminal) if using the "-P" command option:
>>
>> man -P cat man >/dev/null
>>
>> should use the cat command as pager. I get the expected effect, but one
>> or more additional messages to stderr:
>>
>> <standard input>:981: warning [p 7, 5.8i, div `3tbd1,0', 0.0i]: cannot
>> adjust line
>> <standard input>:990: warning [p 7, 5.8i, div `3tbd4,0', 0.0i]: cannot
>> adjust line
>>
>>
>> Anybody knows what this means? No such message if the gnome terminal is
>> wide enough.
>
> It probably means what it says. You can format man pages with a
> variable number of characters per line, hence you might have "(setq
> Man-width 75)" in your ~/.emacs to get a reasonably formatted display
> rather than one with the lines being too long for comfortable reading.
>
> Now say, you specify zero characters per line, and the software may
> suddenly have a hard time adjusting the lines.
In case lee's unclear: the output of "man" isn't going to your terminal
any
more, so it doesn't know how wide the output should be.
Hi Cameron,
Sounds reasonable.
Personally I would expect it to default to assuming an 80-column output and
format for that. But it appears not.
I filed a BZ.
Thanks for your answer.
Kind regards
Joachim Backes
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