Jay Knight » gentoo http://jk3.us ...or something along those lines Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:22:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Using vim as a pager (in gentoo) http://jk3.us/2007/02/01/vim-as-pager/ http://jk3.us/2007/02/01/vim-as-pager/#comments Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:26:21 +0000 Jay http://jk3.us/2007/02/01/vim-as-pager/ Continue reading →]]> Wondering what the “vim-pager” use flag on app-editors/vim did, I gave it a shot. Turns out it gives you 2 extra commands: vimpager and vimmanpager. So adding

export MANPAGER=/usr/bin/vimmanpager

to your login script of choice (.bashrc works just fine), man will use vim as a pager, complete with systax highlighting and ability to use the mouse scroll wheel and other such fun things to navigate man pages.

You could also set PAGER (and/or alias less) to vimpager, but I found that vimpager waits for EOF before displaying anything, meaning it won’t work for commands that run until interupted, and commands that run for a long time wait until completion to show anything at all.

UPDATE to ask: If anyone knows a way to use this but to use the colors from a program with color output, eg. “ls –color=always | vimpager”, please let me know.

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