Re: Man command not working with Vim 7
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:56:48PM -0600, Trent Michael Gamblin wrote: Benji Fisher wrote: I think this is important, but I do not understand it completely. When I try $ man cvs | col -b | less or simply $ man cvs | less I get a similar error message, Error executing formatting or display command ... after I exit less. I guess that was sent to stderr? (I am pretty sure that man is /usr/bin/man .) So somehow vim is reading stderr into your buffer instead of stdout? [snip] This will start up vim without your usual vimrc file. Is the problem still there? Almost the same thing. It first says Output is not a terminal then when I type something it shows the same ugly buffer from my first post. If the problem goes away, maybe you have some weird setting for your 'shellredir' option or something. What does [snip] shell=/bin/bash shellredir=%s 21 /bin/bash Well, that looks normal. Eric Arnold's problem was along these lines. Next, you can try (from an empty buffer) :r! man cvs or :r! man cvs | col -b Do you get the same error message, or do you get the man page? I get the same error messages and partial unformatted man page. Part of the error message is: Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/man (echo .pl 11i; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/cvs.1.gz') | /usr/bin/gtbll | /usr/bin/nroff -c --legacy ISO-8859-1 -mandoc 2/dev/null | col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist' -) exited with status 256. No manual entry for cvs When I run that command from the shell I get the man page formatted perfectly. So I wonder what program is exiting with status 256 and what that particular error code means. BTW, I had to make a symbol link from gtbl to gtbll, since I didn't have gtlbll. We are making progress: the ftplugin/man.vim script is not the culprit, there is something wrong with :r! . BTW, I am using FC2, so my system should be similar to yours. I get a similar error message to the one you quote when, from a shell, I try $ man cvs | less but I only see the error after I quit less. Do you *not* see it in this context? Not that I know what to do with the answer, but I am hoping that our systems will work the same way and that we can narrow down where that error message comes from. I do not have any great ideas at the moment (and in fact I am pressed for time) but this might be worth trying: $ vim -u NONE :r! man cvs :set shllquote? shellxquote? HTH --Benji Fisher
Re: Man command not working with Vim 7
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:16:54PM -0600, Trent Michael Gamblin wrote: I'm having trouble getting the Man command working with Vim. I have the line: runtime ftplugin/man.vim in my ~/.vimrc. When I type :Man man page I get this: Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal ^M Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/man (echo .pl 11i; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/sNo manual entry for va_arg -stdin-2[readonly]2157L,-5815C1;24r?12;25h?12l?25h27mmH2J1;1H35mSTDARG(3) 33mSYNOPSISm 35m #include m31mstdarg.hm11;8H32mvoidm 36mva_startm(32mva_listm ap, las It looks like some errors followed by the beginning of the man page. Can anyone help me? Thanks. Have a nice day. What version of vim and what OS are you using? Unless someone has a better idea, I need more information to figure this out. You can try :redir vimlog.txt :12 verbose Man cvs :redir END and then look at vimlog.txt or send it to the list. HTH --Benji Fisher
Re: Man command not working with Vim 7
Eric Arnold wrote: I was having some problems getting manpageview to work on Windows: Thank you for the feedback! I'll look into it (I hope) later on my WinXP machine. Do you use cygwin? Regards, Chip Campbell
Re: Man command not working with Vim 7
On 6/26/06, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Arnold wrote: I was having some problems getting manpageview to work on Windows: Thank you for the feedback! I'll look into it (I hope) later on my WinXP machine. Do you use cygwin? Yes.
Re: Man command not working with Vim 7
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:16:54PM -0600, Trent Michael Gamblin wrote: I'm having trouble getting the Man command working with Vim. I have the line: runtime ftplugin/man.vim in my ~/.vimrc. When I type :Man man page I get this: Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal ^M Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/man (echo .pl 11i; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/sNo manual entry for va_arg -stdin-2[readonly]2157L,-5815C1;24r?12;25h?12l?25h27mmH2J1;1H35mSTDARG(3) 33mSYNOPSISm 35m #include m31mstdarg.hm11;8H32mvoidm 36mva_startm(32mva_listm ap, las It looks like some errors followed by the beginning of the man page. Can anyone help me? Thanks. Have a nice day. On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:47:19PM -0600, Trent Michael Gamblin wrote: Benji Fisher wrote: What version of vim and what OS are you using? Unless someone has a better idea, I need more information to figure this out. You can try :redir vimlog.txt :12 verbose Man cvs :redir END and then look at vimlog.txt or send it to the list. I'm using Vim 7.0 and Fedora Core 4. Here is the output of the commands you wrote, which doesn't show anything to me: [snip] continuing in BufEnter Auto commands for * calling function SNR6_GetPage..SNR6_GetCmdArg function SNR6_GetPage..SNR6_GetCmdArg returning 'cvs' continuing in function SNR6_GetPage Calling shell to execute: (/usr/bin/man cvs | col -b) /tmp/v364103/2 21 17 more lines [snip] I have also tried the manpageview script suggested but I get Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal And then the only thing I can do is Ctrl-Z and kill vim I would appreciate any help very much. Thanks. I understand some of what is going on, but not all. The part I did not snip seems to be where the problem is. When I try it, I get something similar but with 1323 more lines, presumably the whole man page, instead of 17 lines. The GetPage() function is defined in the default ftplugin/man.vim ; the SNR6_ part means that it is a script-local function (defined as s:GetPage() ) and this is the sixth script that was :source'd when you started vim. (You can confirm this with :scriptnames .) Looking at $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim and the definition of s:GetPage() (well, it is defined as SIDGetPage(), close enough), I see the line silent exec r!/usr/bin/man .s:GetCmdArg(sect, page). | col -b and this is what calls man cvs, filters it through col -b (to remove backspaces and other nasties), and reads it into the empty buffer. I think this is important, but I do not understand it completely. When I try $ man cvs | col -b | less or simply $ man cvs | less I get a similar error message, Error executing formatting or display command ... after I exit less. I guess that was sent to stderr? (I am pretty sure that man is /usr/bin/man .) So somehow vim is reading stderr into your buffer instead of stdout? Again, maybe someone else can figure this out. If not, here are some more things to try as we attempt to figure out what is going wrong. $ vim -u NONE :runtime ftplugin/man.vim :Man cvs This will start up vim without your usual vimrc file. Is the problem still there? If the problem goes away, maybe you have some weird setting for your 'shellredir' option or something. What does :set shell? shellredir? :echo $SHELL tell you? Next, you can try (from an empty buffer) :r! man cvs or :r! man cvs | col -b Do you get the same error message, or do you get the man page? HTH --Benji Fisher
Re: Man command not working with Vim 7
This $ vim -u NONE :runtime ftplugin/man.vim :Man cvs worked for me, and :r! man cvs | col -b failed with my normal .vimrc , so I tracked it down to needing: set shellxquote=\ The backslash is required. I had shellxquote=' for other situations. I seems like I've got some shell commands which require different settings :-(
Re: Man command not working with Vim 7
Benji Fisher wrote: I understand some of what is going on, but not all. The part I did not snip seems to be where the problem is. When I try it, I get something similar but with 1323 more lines, presumably the whole man page, instead of 17 lines. The GetPage() function is defined in the default ftplugin/man.vim ; the SNR6_ part means that it is a script-local function (defined as s:GetPage() ) and this is the sixth script that was :source'd when you started vim. (You can confirm this with :scriptnames .) Looking at $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim and the definition of s:GetPage() (well, it is defined as SIDGetPage(), close enough), I see the line silent exec r!/usr/bin/man .s:GetCmdArg(sect, page). | col -b and this is what calls man cvs, filters it through col -b (to remove backspaces and other nasties), and reads it into the empty buffer. I think this is important, but I do not understand it completely. When I try $ man cvs | col -b | less or simply $ man cvs | less I get a similar error message, Error executing formatting or display command ... after I exit less. I guess that was sent to stderr? (I am pretty sure that man is /usr/bin/man .) So somehow vim is reading stderr into your buffer instead of stdout? Again, maybe someone else can figure this out. If not, here are some more things to try as we attempt to figure out what is going wrong. $ vim -u NONE :runtime ftplugin/man.vim :Man cvs This will start up vim without your usual vimrc file. Is the problem still there? Almost the same thing. It first says Output is not a terminal then when I type something it shows the same ugly buffer from my first post. If the problem goes away, maybe you have some weird setting for your 'shellredir' option or something. What does :set shell? shellredir? :echo $SHELL tell you? shell=/bin/bash shellredir=%s 21 /bin/bash Next, you can try (from an empty buffer) :r! man cvs or :r! man cvs | col -b Do you get the same error message, or do you get the man page? I get the same error messages and partial unformatted man page. Part of the error message is: Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/man (echo .pl 11i; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/cvs.1.gz') | /usr/bin/gtbll | /usr/bin/nroff -c --legacy ISO-8859-1 -mandoc 2/dev/null | col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist' -) exited with status 256. No manual entry for cvs When I run that command from the shell I get the man page formatted perfectly. So I wonder what program is exiting with status 256 and what that particular error code means. BTW, I had to make a symbol link from gtbl to gtbll, since I didn't have gtlbll. Thanks for your help.
