Re: man.vim and ansi escape characters

My guess is that your version of Linux is set up to show colorised man pages
and that is why you're getting those wacky escape sequences.

Have a look at the manpage for man. It might indicate how to turn that feature
off.

The ftplugin has an associated syntax file which does the colorizing of the
man pages for vim.

HTH.

On 15 January 2017 at 17:41, Anders Thøgersen <anderslt@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a problem when using man.vim that I see a lot of incomplete
> ansi control characters and I have not been able to track down
> the source of this. Any help is appreciated!
>
> When I start vim with:
>
> vim --noplugin -U NONE
>
> and do
>
> :runtime ftplugin/man.vim
> :Man ls
>
> I get a man page with a lot of garbled stuff in it, ie.
>
> LS(1) User Commands LS(1)
>
> 1mNAME0m
> ls - list directory contents
>
> 1mSYNOPSIS0m
> 1mls 22m[4mOPTION24m]... [4mFILE24m]...
>
> 1mDESCRIPTION0m
>
> ...
>
> It seems that the escape characters have been incompletely removed.
>
> I am on a newly installed Linux laptop and am running vim 8.0.192
> that I compiled --with-features=huge and am using a setup that
> I had used on a different machine.
>
> Could there be something in my environment that is problematic?
>
>
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