To use Vim as a pager for man I have
export MANPAGER="/usr/share/vim/vim73/macros/manpager.sh"
in my profile. Now man pages look very good with colors and stuff. However, when trying man ascii
as a way of looking at the ASCII table, I notice that the table is mis-aligned as in the screenshot below:
This problem doesn't happen to the default pager. When I set export MANPAGER="view -"
the table is also correct, so something must be wrong with the manpager.sh
script:
#!/bin/sh
sed -e 's/\x1B\[[[:digit:]]\+m//g' | col -b | \
vim \
-c 'let no_plugin_maps = 1' \
-c 'set nolist nomod ft=man' \
-c 'let g:showmarks_enable=0' \
-c 'runtime! macros/less.vim' -
How can I fix this?
Best Answer
When I try with the following script things are normal:
I'm not sure what role
col
plays in the sequence, but it is certainly messing up the spaces. Until somebody gives a better solution, this will be my fix.Edit: so
col
was the problem because it "replaces white-space characters with tabs where possible". To fix this tellcol
to use spaces instead of tabs with the-x
option. The final config is as follow (with credit to Gilles).