Tony,
A.J.Mechelynck said on 12/04/2006 12:55 AM:
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/
Thanks for the advice. I'v since added following line to my .vimrc
(triggered by Bram's suggestion)
autocmd FileType man setlocal nonumber foldcolumn=0
and that gets rid of my so-called problem.
Thanx to help out, once more!
Guido.
Best regards,
Tony.
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