ehm... well... actually I could try with vnc... :-)
Giacomo 2015-03-06 18:22 GMT+01:00 Giacomo Tesio <[email protected]>: > Actually I'm using drawterm, as a sort of remote desktop connection. But I > can't see the problem you are talking about. > The clients (either windows or linux) don't have the font installed, but > still it seem working pretty well (except for the spacing issues in man > pages). I don't have a real monitor attached to the xen server, so I can't > try it without drawterm. > > col.c just ignores $tabstop in it's source code. It use a Tabstop = 8 > constant instead (and a 7 value to check for position). > Changing the code to use $tabstop is trivial, and I even tried it, but it > neither fixed the initial problem nor decreased the man output size enough > to justify it's proposal. > > I'm going to write a sed script to remove the leading margin (but not > every space or tab at the beginning of each line) from nroff output so that > (with my font and my 14inches monitor) I can use a 3 column acme to browse > /sys/src/ && read the code && browse man pages. > This should also reduce the man output size more than col. > > > Giacomo > > 2015-03-06 17:33 GMT+01:00 erik quanstrom <[email protected]>: > >> On Fri Mar 6 04:57:18 PST 2015, [email protected] wrote: >> >> > if ((++ncp & 7) == 0 && !xflag) { >> > >> > with >> > >> > if ((++ncp & 7) == 0 && !xflag && *(p-2) == ' ') { >> >> that solves it. you have a problem with $tabstop. if you've cpu'd >> or ssh'd somewhere, make sure the $tabstop is set properly, and that >> the font you are using is available on the remote host, and $font >> is pointing to it. >> >> - erik >> >> >
