Hi Paul, Paul Irofti wrote on Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 11:23:54AM +0300: > Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> * Nowadays, i guess that terminals narrower than 80 columns >> have become seriously rare, so there is not very widespread >> benefit for that case. > Maybe that was true when we still had 4:3 screens, but now I always > have 2 or 3 80 column xterms and space for another that is around 60 > columns. I see. I typically use three xterms side-by-side and for the remaining space on the left a slightly overlapping one that i use more rarely. When is use it, i often get away with only seeing the leftmost columns; when i need to see all columns, i temporarily switch it to the foreground. Purely a matter of taste, of course. I see that your approach makes sense, too. > So I guess a better choice would be: > > $ alias man='man -Owidth=$(($COLUMNS<80?($COLUMNS-2):78))' Sure, that seems reasonable for the usecase. > which is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Can it be the default? :) I'm neither particularly enthusiastiastic (because it requires more code, in particular more getenv(3) which i dislike in general, and because it adds another difference in behaviour depending on isatty(3)) nor am im categorically rejecting the request. If a few developers consider the feature useful, i shall implement it; if nobody else speaks up, i'm more likely to KISS it. Yours, Ingo
