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| author | Doron Behar <doron.behar@gmail.com> | 2019-08-28 02:38:58 +0300 |
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| committer | Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com> | 2019-08-28 01:38:58 +0200 |
| commit | 3c9c64d9dd486598f36c597da1eaffebb3bf4cef (patch) | |
| tree | 7751866696f0d13003b9bd47a12846f350fd60ed | |
| parent | 09cbd6769b737e9de88e9885f19c2bd0f5fa5795 (diff) | |
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doc: man.vim #10817
ref #10808
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/filetype.txt | 15 |
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diff --git a/runtime/doc/filetype.txt b/runtime/doc/filetype.txt index 1f7d09ae32..c579c390c6 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/filetype.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/filetype.txt @@ -515,9 +515,6 @@ MAN *ft-man-plugin* *:Man* *man.vim* View manpages in Nvim. Supports highlighting, completion, locales, and navigation. Also see |find-manpage|. -To use Nvim as a manpager: > - export MANPAGER='nvim +Man!' - man.vim will always attempt to reuse the closest man window (above/left) but otherwise create a split. @@ -554,6 +551,18 @@ Variables: :let b:man_default_sections = '3,2' *g:man_hardwrap* Hard-wrap to $MANWIDTH. May improve layout. +To use Nvim as a manpager: > + export MANPAGER='nvim +Man!' + +Note that when running `man` from the shell and with that `MANPAGER` in your +environment, `man` will pre-format the manpage using `groff`. Thus, Neovim +will inevitably display the manual page as it was passed to it from stdin. One +of the caveats of this is that the width will _always_ be hard-wrapped and not +soft wrapped as with `:Man`. You can set in your environment: > + export MANWIDTH=999 + +So `groff`'s pre-formatting output will be the same as with `:Man` i.e soft-wrapped. + PDF *ft-pdf-plugin* Two maps, <C-]> and <C-T>, are provided to simulate a tag stack for navigating |