Murukesh Mohanan wrote:
>
> Typically man pages have bold and underlines displayed using |x\bx|
> and |_\bx|, |\b| being the backspace and |x| the letter in question
> (Thomas Dickey talks about this in this Unix & Linux post
> <http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/271553/70524>). That's what makes
> using just |vim -| as the manpager annoying. The workaround I have
> seen posted in a number of places is to filter out the backspaces, and
> the characters that would have been printed over. Typically:
>
> |MANPAGER='col -b | vim -' |
>
> There's no reason to do this with |col -b|, of course. You could do
> something like:
>
> if !empty($MAN_PN)
> autocmd StdinReadPost * set ft=man | file $MAN_PN | call PrepManPager()
> endif
>
> And |PrepManPager()| defined in some suitable place:
>
> function! PrepManPager()
> setlocal modifiable
> %s/.\b\(.\)/\1/g
> 1
> setlocal nomodified
> setlocal nomodifiable
> endfunction
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Aside:
>
> In the Unix & Linux post mentioned above, I'd posted my method, which
> involves keeping the backspaces and concealing them, instead of
> removing them. Personally, I feel the loss of functionality in
> searching is balanced by the added syntax highlighting I can do with
> the backspaces retained. There are manpages for which the standard
> |syntax/man.vim| is useless, because it has no way to know what the
> actual page would have highlighted. (Pick any C++ STL manpage, for
> example.) If anyone's interested, here's how I use conceal for this
> <https://github.com/murukeshm/vim-manpager/blob/master/after/syntax/man.vim>.
>
>
Have you tried ManPageView? I use the kornshell, but it should work
with bash also:
# man: {{{2
function man
{
gv -c "Man $*" -c "sil! only"
}
then man printf brings up ManPageView in vim. (you can get
ManPageView from
http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#MANPAGEVIEW).
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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