On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:05:58PM +0000, Phil Dobbin wrote:
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> Hi, all.
> I quite often send various man pages & the like to Vim like so:
> `$ man foo | ul -i | vim -`
> which works great but it tends to bring with it some non-ASCII, control
> & null (ASCII0) characters with it. When doing this on OS X I've been
> sending the file to BBEdit which has a Zaps Gremlins command which rids
> me of the offending characters so then I can use :harcopy in MacVim to
> save the resultant file as a PDF.
> Is there anyway I can zap these gremlins from inside Vim & therefore
> negate the BBEdit part of the workflow? It'll also free me up to do it
> on my Linux boxes too.
you can put the following in your ~/.bashrc:
function vman() { man "$@" 2>&1 | col -bx | iconv -c | vim -c 'set ft=man nomod
nolist' -c 'call Hideme()' -; }
(all one line)
where Hideme() is defined in your .vimrc as
function! Hideme()
setlocal noswapfile
setlocal buftype=nofile
setlocal bufhidden=hide
endfunction
i use it a lot and never see any gremlins, with the added benefit of
syntax highlighting on the man page
sc
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