Viewing man pages using neovim

2025-04-10

I get frustrated when I accidentally pull up neovim's man page viewer when I press `Shift-K` on something. But TIL that you can do it on purpose by using neovim as your `MANPAGER`:

It includes a local mapping so that a bare `q` closes the viewer, just like if you were using a default pager like `less`. And `Shift-K` works to follow links within the man pages. Good stuff!