Timeline for Dynamically reformatting man pages on terminal dimension changes
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| Jun 27, 2011 at 9:07 | vote | accept | peth | ||
| Apr 15, 2011 at 22:56 | answer | added | camh | timeline score: 13 | |
| Apr 15, 2011 at 18:00 | answer | added | Robin Green | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 15, 2011 at 14:48 | comment | added | nix |
The problem appears to be that man renders the output to the width of the term. What you need is a pager that can bookmark where you are in the document, re-execute man (which it really has no idea about since it's piped to it) and return to the bookmark. Alternatively, a new man command that incorporates a pager.
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| Apr 15, 2011 at 14:44 | comment | added | Michael Mrozek |
man actually uses less as the pager; you can hit h in a man page to get the less help screen. I'm not sure why it doesn't dynamically resize man pages
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| Apr 15, 2011 at 14:30 | history | edited | peth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited for clarity, flow, formatting
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| Apr 15, 2011 at 14:20 | history | asked | peth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |