On 03/06/2014 09:38 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 06Mar2014 16:19, lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) Kernel-3.13.5-202.fc20.x86_64 Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/de-index.html https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/en-index.html -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
