Eli Zaretskii <eliz@xxxxxxx> writes: >> From: Dirk Gouders <dirk@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, >> help-texinfo@xxxxxxx >> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:01:56 +0200 >> >> Arsen Arsenović <arsen@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> >>>> • In windowing environments lsp does complete resizes when windows >> >>>> get resized. This means it also reloads the manual page to fit the >> >>>> new window size. >> >>> >> >>> Good. This I miss it in less(1) often. Not sure if they had any strong >> >>> reason to not support that. >> >> >> >> Unfortunately, info(1) also doesn't do full resizes (on my system). >> > >> > Do you mean the info pages' column limit or that the viewer itself >> > doesn't resize to fit the frame? The latter would be a bug. >> >> Yes, I meant the column limit. Sorry for not having expressed this very >> clear. > > Info files are formatted already, you cannot ask the reader to > reformat them for a different line length. Thank you for that explanation; I didn't know that and now understand info(1)'s behavior. Dirk > With man pages this is only possible if you never keep the formatted > pages and reuse them once they were produced.
