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Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

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How to use Vim as your manpager :)

For all those vim users out there who wish to have man pages open with vim by default, you just need to add the following line to your .bashrc or .bash_profile:

export MANPAGER="col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist' -" 

If you want your .vimrc to be read as well, just add the following before the `-c' in the above:

-u location of rc file

BTW, if anyone knows how to disable line numbers when using the above with a .vimrc containing set number , please let me know   

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phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: How to use Vim as your manpager :)

try:

export MANPAGER="col -b | vim -c 'set ft=man nonu nomod nolist' -"

the nonu should take care of removing line numbers

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Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: How to use Vim as your manpager :)

try:

export MANPAGER="col -b | vim -c 'set ft=man nonu nomod nolist' -"

the nonu should take care of removing line numbers

It's official - phrakture is THE vim guru 

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Dusty

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Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: How to use Vim as your manpager :)

phrakture is the everything guru.  X11, CLI, VIM, ssh, network, lovemaking, organized crime, kernel hacking, etc.

everything except Java, that is.

Dusty

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Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

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Re: How to use Vim as your manpager :)

phrakture is the everything guru.  X11, CLI, VIM, ssh, network, lovemaking, organized crime, kernel hacking, etc.

everything except Java, that is.

ROFL

I was forgetting   

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arooaroo

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2005-01-13

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Re: How to use Vim as your manpager :)

... lovemaking ...

Am I the only one wondering how you know this fact?

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phrakture

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Re: How to use Vim as your manpager :)

phrakture is the everything guru.  X11, CLI, VIM, ssh, network, lovemaking, organized crime, kernel hacking, etc.

Am I the only one wondering how you know this fact?

You weren't supposed to tell, schnookums!

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Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: How to use Vim as your manpager :)

phrakture is the everything guru.  X11, CLI, VIM, ssh, network, lovemaking, organized crime, kernel hacking, etc.

Am I the only one wondering how you know this fact?

You weren't supposed to tell, schnookums!

AHAHAHAHAHA, that has TOTALLY made my day   

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phrakture

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Re: How to use Vim as your manpager :)

For the record, there is also "manpageview.vim", on www.vim.org.  However, for me it doesn't seem to properly remove the ^H characters from the page before displaying it.
I've been meaning to delve into it.

With manpager set like this, you cannot use "K" from within vim, thought you can with manpageview.

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jakob

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-10-27

Posts: 419

Re: How to use Vim as your manpager :)

amazing trick, i like that very much, thanks!