On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:19:57AM +0100, Oleg Pahl wrote: > Hi @all, > > Today I try to work with man pages using *vim*. > > *# man man | vim -* > > why i see raw (a lot of special char.) data by default? is it ok? > > *# ma man | less * > > I see no special characters. looks very good. > > Is it possible to convert *raw* data of man page to normal format (for > *vim*) with one command? > > BR, > > -op
man man | col -b | vim - See the col(1) manual. This is also mentioned in the mandoc(1) manual, in the "ASCII Output" section. -- Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS), Uppsala University, Sweden.
