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Is there a better way to browse man pages?
(lemmy.ml)
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As an emacs user, I use
M-x man
. All my standard keybindings make finding what I need very easy.Of course, it's not so fast if you aren't already in emacs.
I want to mention that one can set the pager for man to be Vim too. Then it would load the document in Vim instead in less for display and navigation. This can be set with option
man -P pager
or with the environmental variable$MANPAGER
or$PAGER
. I had set this up in the past with original Vim, but it required some special options for Vim as well. It was nice, but ultimately not needed; so I went back to less. Sometimes less is more.Edit: Here is how one can use Neovim as the pager:
I kind of missed it and will set it to this now. Put this line in the Bash configuration .bashrc and every
man
document is loaded in Neovim now.+1, displaying in a Emacs buffer solves any issues I could have. If you're already 'in' Emacs, this will be more frictionless than shell scripts around
man