From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 04:33:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBAE106564A for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:33:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41FCD8FC13 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:33:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0I4XG9X035057 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:33:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0I4XGcR073877 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:33:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p0I4XFL8073837 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:33:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:33:15 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110118043315.GJ75125@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.4 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:33:16 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 199.67.51.78 Subject: Re: How to adjust man page line length X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:33:17 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 17), David J. Weller-Fahy said: > To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to > automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly > easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal gymnastics > I may not be willing to perform. For FreeBSD-originated manpages, it looks like the line length is taken from the .ll and .lt definitions in /usr/share/tmac/mdoc/doc-nroff . If you comment them out, you get the groff default width of 6 inches. I don't know if groff can pull values from environment variables or the physical TTY. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com