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[ILUG] some reasons why vim rocks...

[ILUG] some reasons why vim rocks...

kevin lyda kevin+dated+1085393566.e52708 at ie.suberic.net
Wed May 19 11:12:37 IST 2004


On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:57:45AM +0100, Feargal Reilly wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004 10:18:23 +0100
> kevin lyda <kevin+dated+1085390312.62b61e at ie.suberic.net> wrote:
> >     you can have vim pull up a man page by pressing K over a word.  so
> >     if you edit this and press K over "fopen" it will bring up the fopen
> >     man page.  the one downside i've seen is that it doesn't let you
> >     specify a section.  i rarely want to see the man page for printf(1)
> >     for instance - man 3 printf is usually more useful.
> I know this one. Just type 3K and it'll give you the man page from section 3.

excellent, my subtle plan worked!  i knew someone would know!

thanks!

kevin

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