Josh Branchaud, Man pages are great, man readers are the problem

Josh Branchaud, Man pages are great, man readers are the problem | Lobsters, 2025

Today I learned (TIL) that Vim/Neovim make a great pager for manual pages. Setting it as your pager (in your .zshrc/.bashrc etc) also has the Less-like affordance of setting ‘q’ to quit.

export MANPAGER="nvim +Man!"

4:23pm on April 10, 2025 from Vancouver, Canada.


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