Re: Playground pager lsp(1)

Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-05T19:07:32Z

> From: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
> Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
> help-texinfo@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:01:56 +0200
>
> Arsen Arsenović <arsen@aarsen.me> 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.

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