Re: man.vim and ansi escape characters

Den søndag den 15. januar 2017 kl. 22.58.57 UTC+1 skrev Frank Shute:
> 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.

Thanks for you reply. I am sure you are right, but I cannot find the
setting that changes it after having tried a couple of things, setting
the terminal to dumb and changing PAGER, etc. I still have escape sequences.

The best solution for me is to pipe pages through sed, but that is not
possible with man.vim since /usr/bin/man is hard coded in the script. I think
I will file an issue on github. :-)


> 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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