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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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-You can see the man pages of anything you want from VIM. No need to exit VIM. Just put the cursor under the word.and press shift+k (Capital 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 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.
+See also [[VimTip167|Using vim as a man-page viewer under Unix]] and{{script|id=489|text=ManPageView}}.
-== Comments ==
-Thank you! Now I can remove my function from .vimrc which do the same thing :)
+==Comments==
-ivon--AT--jinr.ru
+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.
-, November 19, 2003 0:56
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-After moving my &lt;.vimrc&gt; to &lt;DOTVIMRC&gt; and my &lt;.vim/&gt; to &lt;DOTVIM/&gt;, so as to avoid
-any of my customizations, and writing a new &lt;.vimrc&gt; with just
- set nocp
- filetype plugin indent on
-the tip did not work using &lt;ctrl-k&gt; on "printf(...)" in a C file. Obviously it needs something!
-May I suggest looking at [[VimTip167]] "Using vim as a man-page viewer under Unix" and
-[/scripts/script.php?script_id=489 vimscript&#35;489] "Manpageview.vim".
-drNchipO--AT--ScampbellPfamilyA.Mbiz - NOSPAM
-, November 19, 2003 7:02
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-Whoops -- yes it does work -- use K, not &lt;ctrl-k&gt;.
-drNchipO--AT--ScampbellPfamilyA.Mbiz
-, November 19, 2003 7:05
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-If you use ftplugin/man.vim
-you can use the VIM builtin manpage viewer, with ability of
-hyperlinking via the tags mechanism.
-just do
-:Man &lt;your favourite man page&gt;
+<pre>
-a lot better (but a little slower) than the Shift+K
+:Man <your favourite man page>
+</pre>
+A lot better (but a little slower) than the Shift+K,
-'''Anonymous'''
-, November 23, 2003 7:03
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