This is very nice, but in to make it work I had to set GROFF_NO_SGR=yes
in my environment. Because, by default grotty (groff driver for
typewriters-like devices) emits SGR escape sequences (from ISO
6429, also called ANSI color escapes) to change text attributes
(bold, italic, colors). These escape sequences are not processed by col
and not displayed as such by view. I thought it could be handled by some
vim macro, and the answer is perhaps negative. Then, the solution should
be inhibiting grotty from emitting these escape sequences, by setting
the env variable mentined above. Other then this, I think that view with
the man syntax should remove the backspaces itself, and there is n oneed
for col and iconv. But, it seens man.vim doesn't work correctly. It
emboldens and undelines, but does not remove the backspace.
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote, On 29/12/06 20:20:
> On Friday 29 December 2006 07:05, J.A. de Vries wrote:
>
>
>> I have this in my bashrc:
>>
>> # Use vim as a manpage reader
>> function vman {
>> /usr/bin/man $* | /usr/bin/col -bp | /usr/bin/iconv -c | /usr/bin/view -c
>> 'set ft=man nomod nolist' - }
>>
>> Someone suggested it years ago (don't remember who) and it works great
>> for me.
>>
>> Grx HdV
>>
>
> Wow! What a beauty!
>
> raju
>
>
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