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On 13/03/2012 07:05, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 09/03/12 21:41, Phil Dobbin wrote:
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>> On 09/03/2012 19:33, sc wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>>
>> It doesn't work on my OS X box (I haven't checked it yet in Fedora or
>> Debian). The gremlins are still present & there's no syntax
>> highlighting in the man pages.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Phil...
>
> It assumes that you are using a Vim version compiled with +syntax and
> +quickfix, which usually means a Normal version or better (check near
> the top of the output of the :version command). In addition, in order to
> see syntax highlighting you have to enable it, by means of one (any one)
> of the following lines in your vimrc:
>
> syntax on
> or
> source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
> or
> runtime vimrc_example.vim
Hi, Tony.
The console Vim on my OS X box I compiled features=huge & no gui so it
has +syntax +quickfix & in my ~/.vimrc syntax is on.
Cheers,
Phil...
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