On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> wrote: > GNU man has the annoying and difficult to stop habit of filling the entire > width of the terminal rather than wrapping at 80 chars. And if you set > $MANWIDTH or $COLUMNS to 80 and the terminal isn't that wide, you wind up > with badly broken wrapping.
Agreed. GNU man really should do something like CSS's "max-width: 80em". > As for bold, fortunately my terminal has it disabled, I set up nice colors for bold and underline so things are easy to read (see the attached screenshot). If anyone is interested, my Xdefaults file is here: http://github.com/sunaku/home/blob/master/.Xdefaults > and reverse video has no place in manual pages. Hehe, I went a little overboard there. :-)
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