tags 411721 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:25:53PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I give up. There are too many man pages that make apropos ugly.
> $ apropos diff|perl -nwle 's/-.*/$l=length $&/e;print if $l>99'
> miff (4) 303
> mogrify (1) 194
> pitchplay (1) 142
> r.cost (1grass) 177
> r.resamp.rst (1grass) 184
> r.sun (1grass) 454
> r.surf.fractal (1grass) 321
>
> One cannot continue begging each author to get into line.
>
> Therefore apropos needs a default truncation column, which can be
> overridden by $COLUMNS or a command line switch or something.
Seems reasonable; thanks for the suggestion. I've implemented this
upstream, so it will be in the next upstream release of man-db. MANWIDTH
overrides the width, and -l/--long disables the truncation altogether.
Sun Aug 19 20:48:42 BST 2007 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Truncate apropos/whatis output to the terminal width by default
(thanks, Dan Jacobson; Debian bug #411721).
* lib/linelength.c: New file for terminal line length detection,
split out from src/man.c. Unlike the previous implementation, this
does its own memoisation rather than requiring explicit
initialisation.
* lib/linelength.h: Prototype get_line_length.
* lib/Makefile.in: Always compile linelength.c.
* src/man.c (line_length, store_line_length): Remove.
(get_roff_line_length): Use get_line_length.
(main): We no longer need to call store_line_length.
* src/whatis.c (args, long_options, main): New -l/--long option.
(usage): Document it.
(display): Truncate names and descriptions to fit within the
terminal width.
* man/man1/apropos.man1 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS, ENVIRONMENT): Document
--long and the MANWIDTH override.
* man/man1/whatis.man1 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS, ENVIRONMENT): Likewise.
* docs/NEWS: Document this.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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