Re: Playground pager lsp(1)

Dirk Gouders <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.man,gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz-mXXj517/[email protected]> writes:

>> From: Dirk Gouders <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>, [email protected],
>>  help-texinfo-mXXj517/[email protected]
>> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:01:56 +0200
>> 
>> Arsen Arsenović <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> >>>>        •   In windowing environments lsp does complete resizes when windows
>> >>>>            get resized. This means it also reloads the manual page to fit the
>> >>>>            new window size.
>> >>>
>> >>> Good.  This I miss it in less(1) often.  Not sure if they had any strong
>> >>> reason to not support that.
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately, info(1) also doesn't do full resizes (on my system).
>> >
>> > Do you mean the info pages' column limit or that the viewer itself
>> > doesn't resize to fit the frame?  The latter would be a bug.
>> 
>> Yes, I meant the column limit.  Sorry for not having expressed this very
>> clear.
>
> Info files are formatted already, you cannot ask the reader to
> reformat them for a different line length.

Thank you for that explanation; I didn't know that and now understand
info(1)'s behavior.

Dirk

> With man pages this is only possible if you never keep the formatted
> pages and reuse them once they were produced.
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