On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Phil Dobbin wrote:
On 13/03/2012 10:52, Thor Andreassen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:05:58PM +0000, Phil Dobbin wrote:
Hi, all.
I quite often send various man pages & the like to Vim like so:
`$ man foo | ul -i | vim -`
Not exactly what you asked for, but here is how I do it. In my .vimrc
I've got:
source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim
Slightly better:
run ftplugin/man.vim
(:run[time] is like :source except it searches the paths in
'runtimepath')
which makes the Man command available. In my shell startup file I
define a function that will open the man page in vim, something like
this:
manvim() { vim -c "Man $1" -c 'silent! only'; }
Hi, Thor.
This is getting curiouser & curiouser; that won't work for me either.
I've appended the first line into my ~/.vimrc & the second to my
~/.bashrc (this on Linux).
You could also combine the lot:
manvim () { vim -c 'run ftplugin/man.vim' -c "Man $1" -c 'sil! only' ; }
This worked fine for me under Linux (OpenSUSE) as-is.
For OS X, (where I don't have a .vimrc on the machine on which I
tested), it also took turning on syntax highlighting:
manvim () {
vim -c 'syn on' \
-c 'run ftplugin/man.vim' \
-c "Man $1" \
-c 'sil! only'
}
If that doesn't work, please expand upon how it "won't work".
--
Best,
Ben
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