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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user <Gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] vimmanpager for MANPAGER not working?
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:27:12
Message-Id: CAA2qdGV1kKM30Hyv73T3-ebicKu8Z55oj3xZT-wUmKSf8LYnvA@mail.gmail.com
1 Anyone successful in using vimmanpager as MANPAGER?
2
3 I keep getting ANSI control char gobbledegook in "man man" if I use
4 the provided vimmanpager script (USE="vimpager" emerge
5 app-editors/vim)
6
7 However, I tried Rafael Kitover's vimpager replacement from here:
8 https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager
9
10 ... copy the new "vimpager" to /usr/local/bin
11
12 ... and set PAGER=/usr/local/bin/vimpager
13
14 ... and it works! "man man" now properly colored, and I even tried
15 "diff -u file1 file2 | vimpager", also works nicely.
16
17 Any comments on why the provided vimpager/vimmanpager of
18 app-editors/vim can no longer properly colorize "man man"?
19
20 Rgds,
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