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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:03 pm    Post subject: vim as a manpage reader Reply with quote

reasons: better search, syntax highlighting etc.

How to:
enable USE="vim-pager" for package app-editors/vim and add
Code:
export MANPAGER=vimmanpager

to your .bashrc.

credit: http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/04/06/viewing_man_pages_with_vim/
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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

EXPORT wont save it for future sessions, you need to change the default in;

Code:
vi /etc/rc.conf


go down to the line that says;

Code:
EDITOR="/bin/nano"


change to;

Code:
EDITOR="/bin/vim"


Then refresh your profile;

Code:
env-update && source /etc/profile

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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:36 pm    Post subject: Re: vim as a manpage reader Reply with quote

Thanks for the tip. The man pages that have code in them look much better via vim.
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PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2008 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice tip! Thank's!

Is there a possibility to setup the pager to allow scrolling line-by-line via the up/down keys?
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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 4:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

faux wrote:
Nice tip! Thank's!

Is there a possibility to setup the pager to allow scrolling line-by-line via the up/down keys?
It already does :roll:

moment: An excellent tip! This had made reading man pages much smoother :D
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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 5:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ppurka wrote:
faux wrote:
Nice tip! Thank's!

Is there a possibility to setup the pager to allow scrolling line-by-line via the up/down keys?
It already does :roll:


Yes, but you have to move the cursor over the screen before scrolling backwards, after scrolling forwards.
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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

glad you all liked it :D vim is great!
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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

faux wrote:
ppurka wrote:
faux wrote:
Nice tip! Thank's!

Is there a possibility to setup the pager to allow scrolling line-by-line via the up/down keys?
It already does :roll:


Yes, but you have to move the cursor over the screen before scrolling backwards, after scrolling forwards.
You can try the following. Make your own script, call it for example myvimmanpager and set your MANPAGER variable to this script. Next, add the second-last line to the original script /usr/bin/vimmanpager, to make it read like this (myvimmanpager):
Code:
#!/bin/sh
sed -e 's/\x1B\[[[:digit:]]\+m//g' | \
tr '\267' '.' | col -b | \
      vim \
         -c 'let no_plugin_maps = 1' \
         -c 'set nolist nomod ft=man' \
         -c 'let g:showmarks_enable=0' \
            -c 'map <up> <C-Y>' \
         -c 'runtime! macros/less.vim' -
There could be a way of doing this in vimrc, but apparently the filetype is not being set when vimrc is run so I am unable to selectively run the map command on only man files.
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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank's for the trick! Exactly what I want! :)
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

faux wrote:
ppurka wrote:
faux wrote:

Is there a possibility to setup the pager to allow scrolling line-by-line via the up/down keys?
It already does :roll:

Yes, but you have to move the cursor over the screen before scrolling backwards, after scrolling forwards.

That is vim's behaviour by default. Even in vim you can always use C-e and C-y to scroll the screen. Make your remapping if you like other key strokes.
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