리눅스 man을 vim으로 열어보자

Use vim for read man page

I don't like to see man or help texts with less. So I try to find out the way to look man page with vim.

I found vim-man - it's quite old but still fascinating.

https://github.com/vim-utils/vim-man

Install with vim-plug

in your ~/.vimrc,

...

Plug 'vim-utils/vim-man'
...

And install plugin (:source %, :PlugInstall)

Then you can now open the man page from vim with :Man command.

But still it's annoying to open vim for man page, then you can use the script from the repository.

(Mac OS based commands)

Add /usr/local/bin/viman file and add the contents below.

#! /bin/sh
vim -c "Man $1 $2" -c 'silent only'

# Add file and add contents above
$ vi /usr/local/bin/viman

# Give execution permission
$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/viman

# Then you can use viman command instead of vim
$ viman ls

If you want to use viman instead of man, add alias to your bashrc (or ~/.zshrc)

alias man=viman