See man pages by gview

Tip 1338 Printable Monobook Previous Next

created 2006 · complexity basic · author gosman · version n/a

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First, source the script man.vim in your vimrc like below, then you can use :Man command.

source /usr/share/vim/vim70/ftplugin/man.vim

Then, create a bash script gman like below:

#!/bin/bash
#gman use gview to see the man pages
#usage: gman name
#example: gman ls
gview -c \"Man $1\" -c only

Now you can see man pages by gman, and you can use scrollbar to browse the manual.

Comments

I am fond of the following bash function which has a similar effect to this tip.

function vman() {
  /usr/bin/man $* | col -b | vim -R -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist' -
}

Or for gview:

function gman() {
  # Don't trigger gview unless there is a page to show.
  for f in `man -w $*`; do
    man $f | col -b | gview -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist' - &> /dev/null
    break
  done
}

Can also do with an alias for the csh shells:

alias gman 'man \!* | col -b | gview - >&! /dev/null'

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See VimTip167.

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