Monday, March 02, 2020

Re: man to render pure text? (or a pipe in vi macros ?)

Marc Chantreux:

> * is there a way to ask man to deliver pure (non-formatted) text ?

Pipe its output through "col -b".

> * is there a way to introduce a | in vi macros?

Yes, by prefixing it with a ^V character. To enter ^V in vi's input
mode, press control-V twice.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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