Re: man command question

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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> 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.


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