* On 2020 10 Jul 10:27 -0500, Steve Izma wrote: > I think it's an abomination that a man page extends it's line > length to fit the width of the terminal; built into the macros > should be a 65- or 70 character maximum width. It's interesting > that the Python Style Guide insists on a maximum line length of > 79 characters and recommends 72. A basic premise of python design > is *readability of code*. The main source of authors for man > pages is, I assume, programmers.
Which is precisely why I have the following environment variable set: # Set maximum width of man pages to 80 characters export MANWIDTH=80 This works very well for me as I often have terminals open that are around 165 characters wide. This environment variable is for the man(1) program. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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