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Use Vim as a man pages viewer.
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vim-manpage-viewer.sh
# Set this in your ~/.bash_profile
export PAGER="/bin/sh -c \"unset PAGER;col -b -x | \
vim -R -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist' -c 'map q :q<CR>' \
-c 'map <SPACE> <C-D>' -c 'map b <C-U>' \
-c 'nmap K :Man <C-R>=expand(\\\"<cword>\\\")<CR><CR>' -\""
# Set this in your ~/.vimrc (This will allow using 'K' to look up man pages inside vim.
let $PAGER=''
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