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Tip 606 Printable Monobook Previous Next

created 2003 · complexity basic · author Manas Behera · version 5.7

You can see the man pages of anything you want from Vim. No need to exit Vim. Just put the cursor on the word and press K and you will be in the man page section. when you are through just press 'q' and you will be out of Vim. Press enter to come back to Vim.

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You can use ftplugin/man.vim (distributed with Vim) for the Vim built-in manpage viewer, with ability of hyperlinking via the tags mechanism.

:Man <your favourite man page>

A lot better (but a little slower) than the Shift+K,

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 |version=5.7
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 You can see the man pages of anything you want from Vim. No need to exit Vim. Just put the cursor on the word and press K and you will be in the man page section. when you are through just press 'q' and you will be out of Vim. Press enter to come back to Vim.
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 ==Comments==
-You can use <tt>ftplugin/man.vim</tt> (distributed with Vim) for the Vim built-in manpage viewer, with ability of hyperlinking via the tags mechanism.
+You can use <code>ftplugin/man.vim</code> (distributed with Vim) for the Vim built-in manpage viewer, with ability of hyperlinking via the tags mechanism.
 <pre>
-:Man &lt;your favourite man page&gt;
+:Man <your favourite man page>
 </pre>