vim as a manpage reader

[moment]

reasons: better search, syntax highlighting etc.

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

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export MANPAGER=vimmanpager

to your .bashrc.

credit: http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/20 ... _with_vim/

[Kingmilo]

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

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vi /etc/rc.conf

go down to the line that says;

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EDITOR="/bin/nano"

change to;

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EDITOR="/bin/vim"

Then refresh your profile;

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env-update && source /etc/profile

[nihilo]

Thanks for the tip. The man pages that have code in them look much better via vim.

[faux]

Nice tip! Thank's!

Is there a possibility to setup the pager to allow scrolling line-by-line via the up/down keys?

[ppurka]

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

moment: An excellent tip! This had made reading man pages much smoother

[faux]

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

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

[moment]

glad you all liked it vim is great!

[ppurka]

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

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):

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#!/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.

[faux]

Thank's for the trick! Exactly what I want!

[Massimo B.]

Is there a possibility to setup the pager to allow scrolling line-by-line via the up/down keys?

It already does

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.