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On 09/03/2012 19:33, sc wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:05:58PM +0000, Phil Dobbin wrote:
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>> Hi, all.
>
>> I quite often send various man pages & the like to Vim like so:
>
>> `$ man foo | ul -i | vim -`
>
>> which works great but it tends to bring with it some non-ASCII,
>> control & null (ASCII0) characters with it. When doing this on OS
>> X I've been sending the file to BBEdit which has a Zaps Gremlins
>> command which rids me of the offending characters so then I can
>> use :harcopy in MacVim to save the resultant file as a PDF.
>
>> Is there anyway I can zap these gremlins from inside Vim &
>> therefore negate the BBEdit part of the workflow? It'll also free
>> me up to do it on my Linux boxes too.
>
> you can put the following in your ~/.bashrc:
>
> function vman() { man "$@" 2>&1 | col -bx | iconv -c | vim -c 'set
> ft=man nomod nolist' -c 'call Hideme()' -; }
>
> (all one line)
>
> where Hideme() is defined in your .vimrc as
>
> function! Hideme() setlocal noswapfile setlocal buftype=nofile
> setlocal bufhidden=hide endfunction
>
> i use it a lot and never see any gremlins, with the added benefit
> of syntax highlighting on the man page
It doesn't work on my OS X box (I haven't checked it yet in Fedora or
Debian). The gremlins are still present & there's no syntax
highlighting in the man pages.
Cheers,
Phil...
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