On 18 April 2013 22:27, terminatorul wrote: > Hello > > I am using `perldoc` to read the perl manual pages.I can use the black > background it gives in mintty with a full-screen console, with low light > intensity so I can read it during night o > > > I can use the black background in mintty with a full-screen > console window with low-light conditions during night or when > someone else is sleeping. > > But it has the problem that it formats and displays text with > a limited with (of 80 character columns I guess), despite my > mintty window being twice as wide. I tried it on a Linux > system and there `perldoc` uses the entire console width. > > Currently I have to use something like > PAGER="lynx -force_html -xhtml_parsing -nocolor" \ > perldoc -o xhtml perl > but I would still like the man format if possible. > > Is there an option to fix the display width for `perldoc` in > cygwin to the console width ?
I'm afraid I don't know, this is just to say that the same happens when running in a console or xterm, so this does indeed appear to be an issue with perldoc's setup. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple