[gentoo-user] vimmanpager for MANPAGER not working?

[gentoo-user] vimmanpager for MANPAGER not working?

[Pandu Poluan]

Anyone successful in using vimmanpager as MANPAGER?

I keep getting ANSI control char gobbledegook in "man man" if I use
the provided vimmanpager script (USE="vimpager" emerge
app-editors/vim)

However, I tried Rafael Kitover's vimpager replacement from here:
https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager

... copy the new "vimpager" to /usr/local/bin

... and set PAGER=/usr/local/bin/vimpager

... and it works! "man man" now properly colored, and I even tried
"diff -u file1 file2 | vimpager", also works nicely.

Any comments on why the provided vimpager/vimmanpager of
app-editors/vim can no longer properly colorize "man man"?

Rgds,
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[gentoo-user] Re: vimmanpager for MANPAGER not working?

[Pandu Poluan]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 17:26, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> Anyone successful in using vimmanpager as MANPAGER?
>
> I keep getting ANSI control char gobbledegook in "man man" if I use
> the provided vimmanpager script (USE="vimpager" emerge
> app-editors/vim)
>
> However, I tried Rafael Kitover's vimpager replacement from here:
> https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager
>
> ... copy the new "vimpager" to /usr/local/bin
>
> ... and set PAGER=/usr/local/bin/vimpager
>
> ... and it works! "man man" now properly colored, and I even tried
> "diff -u file1 file2 | vimpager", also works nicely.
>
> Any comments on why the provided vimpager/vimmanpager of
> app-editors/vim can no longer properly colorize "man man"?
>
> Rgds,
> --
> FdS Pandu E Poluan
> ~ IT Optimizer ~
>
>  • LOPSA Member #15248
>  • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com
>  • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan
>

Oookay. So. Finally managed to make vimmanpager work by doing:

echo "MANPAGER=/usr/bin/vimmanpager" > /etc/env.d/99manpager

To make sure, I deleted rkitover's vimpager from /usr/local/bin, and do man man

Now, before I lose my mind, can someone tell me what's the difference
between /etc/env.d and /etc/profile.d ??

Rgds,
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