Charles E Campbell wrote: > 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). > I'd like to note that ManPageView, which can be run from within vim as :Man, also supports help for php, perl, python, tex, and vim, as well as the usual man pages. One thing I like about its support for regular man pages involves a map for <s-left> and <s-right>, supporting man pages in different "books". Ie. for printf: man 1 printf, man 1p printf, man 3 printf, and man 3p printf are all on my system. I can do a man printf (which will bring up manpageview interpreting the manpage), then shift-rightmouse until I get to the printf help I want.
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