On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:39:01PM +0100, Ajay Jain wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using putty (on Windows) to login to a linux machine. > > I wish to read the manpages using Vim. I have added the followig to my > .bashrc: > > export PAGER="/bin/sh -c \"unset PAGER;col -b -x | view -c 'set ft=man > nomod nolist' -c 'map q :q<CR>' -c 'map <SPACE> <C-D>' -c 'map b <C-U>' > -c 'nmap K :Man <C-R>=expand(\\\"<cword>\\\")<CR><CR>' -\"" > > However, I am not able to read the manpages correctly. Some characters > are distorted etc etc. Can somebody share his tested settings, so that > I can read these pages in the best possible way.
Try changing the NROFF line in /etc/man.conf to this:
NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc
-Erik
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