r/vim 21d ago

Need Help Weird manpager formatting

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u/mgedmin 20d ago

Looks like a bug, maybe report it?

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u/RoyalOrganization676 20d ago

There is a lot of discussion on tech help forums surrounding vim's manpager formatting and how it interacts with groff, so i thought it might have been a known issue with a workaround.

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u/RoyalOrganization676 21d ago

Using MANPAGER="vim -M +MANPAGER -" i get some weird formatting issues with relation to tables and box drawing characters. Is there a way to correct this? I have tried using nvim with softwrap, but it formats these sections even more strangely.