Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
The :Man command always outputs lines that do not fit within the current
line length.
The Description section of the bash man page is rendered as follows in a
75x50 gnome terminal (using a narrow window to avoid the wrapping by
email clients):
DESCRIPTION
Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter
@that exe
cutes commands read from the standard input or from a
@file. Bash
This is gvim/vim 7 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft 2.6.17-10-generic AMD64
The man.vim pluging picks up the width of the line from winwidth(0). I
am afraid that this does not account for unavailable columns due to the
scroll bar at the right side, the folding margin at the left side, the
fact that I have the number option on, so some columns are used for the
line number etc...
I copied the script into ~/.vim/ftplugin/ and changed line 144 into
let $MANWIDTH = winwidth(0) - 10
This fixes my problem, but it is definitely not the proper way to do this.
Guido.
Man expects to page its output through less or similar (via some formatting
filter such as -IIRC- groff). This usually means 80 "usable" columns per line.
You might want to set your 'columns' in the vimrc in such way that 80 columns
are available for man pages (possibly with ":setlocal nonumber" for manpages)
while restricting the line length for mail messages to avoid wrapping when
quoted on arrival (e.g., by using ":setlocal wrapmargin=5" for mail).
The "typical" way of doing that would be in the vimrc, plus
user-filetype-plugins in an |after-directory| such as (on Unix)
~/.vim/after/ftplugin/
Best regards,
Tony.
