Hi,
I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it. For
example .. I want to able to do something like:
vim dumm.c
:tabe man ls .
Is this possible?
Regards,
Ajay.
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On 02/02/11 10:19, Ajay Jain wrote:
Hi,
I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it. For
example .. I want to able to do something like:
vim dumm.c
:tabe man ls .
Is this possible?
Regards,
Ajay.
Try:
:tabnew | silent !man
Cheers,
Daniel
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On 02/02/11 23:19, Ajay Jain wrote:
Hi,
I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it. For
example .. I want to able to do something like:
vim dumm.c
:tabe man ls .
Is this possible?
Regards,
Ajay.
If you put the cursor on the word/statement/command for example "u
On 2011-02-02 Daniel Corrêa wrote:
> Try:
>
> :tabnew | silent !man
If i execute !man ls I get the message:
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
and the displayed man page looks distorted in gvim. Why? I opened up
(gnome-terminal, urxvt, xterm) opened gvim and executed !man ls
If
On 02/02/2011 03:19 PM, Ajay Jain wrote:
I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it.
Have you tied to find answer by yourself?
I've newer thought to read man from vim, but have found answer in five
seconds:
:help :Man
It it not very difficult, right?
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2011/2/2 Marco :
> On 2011-02-02 Daniel Corrêa wrote:
>
>> Try:
>>
>> :tabnew | silent !man
>
> If i execute !man ls I get the message:
>
> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
>
> and the displayed man page looks distorted in gvim. Why?
This is not (exactly) a vim issue but man pager'
On Wed, February 2, 2011 3:04 pm, Joan Miquel Torres Rigo wrote:
> Did you try to run gvim from terminal and try again?
>
> In any case, you could avoid this problem by specifying TERM value in
> command line or setting this environment variable from within vim (I
> don't know, but must be possible
Ajay Jain wrote:
Hi,
I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it. For
example .. I want to able to do something like:
vim dumm.c
:tabe man ls .
Is this possible?
Perhaps Manpageview will do what you want; :Man ls
Manpageview is available at:
http://mys
On 02/02/11 12:03, sergio wrote:
On 02/02/2011 03:19 PM, Ajay Jain wrote:
I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it.
Have you tied to find answer by yourself?
I've newer thought to read man from vim, but have found answer in five
seconds:
:help :Man
It it not very d
On 2011-02-02 Joan Miquel Torres Rigo wrote:
> Gvim isn't terminal application and you probably did'nt call it from
> terminal
Yes, I did call it from gnome-terminal, urxvt and xterm.
> aren't terminals and doesn't export any value for TERM environment
> variable.
TERM is set to xterm.
> Did yo
2011/2/2 Marco :
> On 2011-02-02 Joan Miquel Torres Rigo wrote:
>
>> Gvim isn't terminal application and you probably did'nt call it from
>> terminal
> Yes, I did call it from gnome-terminal, urxvt and xterm.
>
>> aren't terminals and doesn't export any value for TERM environment
>> variable.
> TE
On 2011-02-03 Joan Miquel Torres Rigo wrote:
> >> aren't terminals and doesn't export any value for TERM environment
> >> variable.
> > TERM is set to xterm.
>
> Of course,
>
> as Christian said, gvim don't use external terminal emulator but its
> own one and it is not fully functional.
Now I
2011/2/3 Marco :
>> Anyway, in this case, if TERM is set to xterm, then less will think
>> that terminal is fully functional.
This is one of the reasons for which I dislike gvim.
>
>> >> Fore example:
>> >> :!TERM=xterm man ls
>> > Doesn't work, either.
>>
>> Ok. But try now with 'dumb'.
>
> Sam
On 2011-02-03 Joan Miquel Torres Rigo wrote:
> >> >> Fore example:
> >> >> :!TERM=xterm man ls
> >> > Doesn't work, either.
> >>
> >> Ok. But try now with 'dumb'.
> >
> > Same result.
>
> Maybe you can try a slightly different strategy like
>
> :tabedit | :r ! man ls
Works. Thanks
Marco
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On Feb 3, 6:12 am, Marco wrote:
> On 2011-02-03 Joan Miquel Torres Rigo wrote:
>
> > >> >> Fore example:
> > >> >> :!TERM=xterm man ls
> > >> > Doesn't work, either.
>
> > >> Ok. But try now with 'dumb'.
>
> > > Same result.
>
> > Maybe you can try a slightly different strategy like
>
> > :tabedi
On Thursday 03 February 2011 09:57:34 Bee wrote:
> I have add the following function to .profile then from a
> terminal command line it makes a clean text file in terminal
> vim. Maybe parts of it can be incorporated in the command
> from Joan Miquel Torres Rigo.
> vman() { man "$@" | col -bx |
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