On 8/19/07, Christian Garbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look for a way to turn of the caching of preformatted manpages. The > caching is (at least on the linux distributions I know) always done at > 80 columns so that these cached pages are useabla by anybody. > > Not using preformatted pages uses your acutal terminal width, but > comes at a small speed cost, as the manpage is formatted every time > you view it - which is neglectible on today's systems.
The man page claims the -c switch will force reformatting the manpage (for whatever man is on Linux); dunno if this actually works. I _think_ I made the cache directory unwriteable by anyone which forces it to format the page each view, but it was years ago so I might be mistaken. Going a bit offtopic a bit, does anyone know any magic to stop man insisting on using wide margins when viewin pages in a terminal? (The left margin is used for hanging headers so is sort of understandable, but in a terminal -- rather than paper printout -- the wide left margin just wastes space annoyingly.) -- cheers, dave tweed__________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rm 124, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading. "we had no idea that when we added templates we were adding a Turing- complete compile-time language." -- C++ standardisation committee
