Re: master 7e387c9: * lisp/man.el (Man-width-max): New defcustom (bug#32536, bug#9385)

[Juri Linkov]

>> +(defun Man-columns ()
>> +  (let ((width (cond
>> +                ((and (integerp Man-width) (> Man-width 0))
>> +                 Man-width)
>> +                (Man-width
>> +                 (let ((window (get-buffer-window nil t)))
>> +                   (frame-width (and window (window-frame window)))))
>> +                (t
>> +                 (window-width (get-buffer-window nil t))))))
>
> Bother: both frame-width and window-width return values in units of
> the canonical character width, which will not change if the default
> face is remapped.  And you are using the value to set the COLUMNS
> environment variable, so you could get too wide lines, which will not
> fit within the window.

This code is not new.  It was moved here from another function.
I don't know how to implement support for variable-pitch fonts
in the Man-mode buffers.  Maybe not to set COLUMNS at all, but
then call fill-paragraph on the output.