Fedora 14 switched to man-db for handling man pages.
Ubuntu has been using it for ages.
On older versions of Fedora I was able to just
add this to my .bashrc to have full man page
functionality, (with drill down) using vim
export MANPAGER='bash -c "vim -MRn -c \"set ft=man nomod nolist nospell nonu\" \
-c \"nm q :qa!<CR>\" -c \"nm <end> G\" -c \"nm <home> gg\"</dev/tty <(col -b)"'
(if pasting that in a terminal make sure to \ the ! in the second line)
The above works fine for man-db too, except when using Ctrl-[
to drill down into sub man pages. In that case man-db will
run the output through $MANPAGER again, even though the
output is not a tty. That would cause various vim errors
and hangups. I was able to work around this in my ~/.vimrc with:
augroup man
au!
"Ensure vim is not recursively invoked (man-db does this)
"when doing ctrl-[ on a man page reference
au FileType man let $MANPAGER=""
augroup END
So rather than doing that, the patch below
just does the same in man.vim
cheers,
Pádraig.
--- /usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/man.vim 2010-11-29 10:00:14.392636934
+0000
+++ man.vim 2010-11-29 10:00:07.233636869 +0000
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
endif
let b:did_ftplugin = 1
+ "Ensure vim is not recursively invoked (man-db does this)
+ "when doing ctrl-[ on a man page reference
+ let $MANPAGER=""
+
" allow dot and dash in manual page name.
setlocal iskeyword+=\.,-
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