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I'm using Vim to develop C on Linux.
When I press K in order to open man page for the underlying word, I don't have control on which man section is opened.
Is there a way to specify that somewhere ?

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Wonderful suggestions: I ended up adding this set keywordprg=man 3 -s to my .vimrc
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Wonderful suggestions: I ended up adding this set keywordprg=man 3 -s to my .vimrc
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Wonderful suggestions: I ended up adding this set keywordprg=man 3 -s to my .vimrc
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Wonderful suggestions: I ended up adding this set keywordprg=man 3 -s to my .vimrc
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 When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man -s", a count
 before "K" is inserted after the "-s". If there is
 no count, the "-s" is removed.

man -s seems to be the default for the 'keywordprg' setting, so simplying using a count before typing K seems to do the trick.

(Tested successfully with 2K and 3K and the cursor being on open).

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From :h K:

 *K*
K Run a program to lookup the keyword under the
 cursor. [...]
 Special cases:
 - When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man" or starts with
 ":", a [count] before "K" is inserted after
 keywordprg and before the keyword. For example,
 using "2K" while the cursor is on "mkdir", results
 in: 
 !man 2 mkdir
 - When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man -s", a count
 before "K" is inserted after the "-s". If there is
 no count, the "-s" is removed.

So 3K should do the trick

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If you're on Linux, you're likely using mandb's man, and you can control the order in which sections are searched. See man 1 man:

MANSECT

If $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of sections
and it is used to determine which manual sections to search and in
what order. The default is "1 n l 8 3 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 3am 5 4 9 6
7", unless overridden by the SECTION directive in /etc/manpath.config.

So another option is to set in your shell initialisation files:

MANSECT=3:3posix:3pm:3perl:3am:1:n:l:8:2:5:4:9:6:7
export MANSECT

Or in your vimrc:

let $MANSECT="3:3posix:3pm:3perl:3am:1:n:l:8:2:5:4:9:6:7"

(Also, depending on what you're programming, section 2 might also need a higher priority.)

(Or, as the manpage says, set system-wide in /etc/manpath.config.)

This also works for FreeBSD's man.

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Quoting from the documentation

 When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man -s", a count
 before "K" is inserted after the "-s". If there is
 no count, the "-s" is removed.

man -s seems to be the default for the 'keywordprg' setting, so simplying using a count before typing K seems to do the trick.

(Tested successfully with 2K and 3K and the cursor being on open).

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Damn I was 43 seconds too late! :)
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Quoting from the documentation

 When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man -s", a count
 before "K" is inserted after the "-s". If there is
 no count, the "-s" is removed.

man -s seems to be the default for the 'keywordprg' setting, so simplying using a count before typing K seems to do the trick.

(Tested successfully with 2K and 3K and the cursor being on open).

edited 2 hours ago

answered 2 hours ago

Christian Brabandt

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Damn I was 43 seconds too late! :)
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Quoting from the documentation

 When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man -s", a count
 before "K" is inserted after the "-s". If there is
 no count, the "-s" is removed.

man -s seems to be the default for the 'keywordprg' setting, so simplying using a count before typing K seems to do the trick.

(Tested successfully with 2K and 3K and the cursor being on open).

edited 2 hours ago

answered 2 hours ago

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Quoting from the documentation

 When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man -s", a count
 before "K" is inserted after the "-s". If there is
 no count, the "-s" is removed.

man -s seems to be the default for the 'keywordprg' setting, so simplying using a count before typing K seems to do the trick.

(Tested successfully with 2K and 3K and the cursor being on open).

edited 2 hours ago

answered 2 hours ago

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answered 2 hours ago

Christian Brabandt

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Christian Brabandt

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answered 2 hours ago

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Damn I was 43 seconds too late! :)
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Damn I was 43 seconds too late! :)
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Damn I was 43 seconds too late! :)
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From :h K:

 *K*
K Run a program to lookup the keyword under the
 cursor. [...]
 Special cases:
 - When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man" or starts with
 ":", a [count] before "K" is inserted after
 keywordprg and before the keyword. For example,
 using "2K" while the cursor is on "mkdir", results
 in: 
 !man 2 mkdir
 - When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man -s", a count
 before "K" is inserted after the "-s". If there is
 no count, the "-s" is removed.

So 3K should do the trick

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From :h K:

 *K*
K Run a program to lookup the keyword under the
 cursor. [...]
 Special cases:
 - When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man" or starts with
 ":", a [count] before "K" is inserted after
 keywordprg and before the keyword. For example,
 using "2K" while the cursor is on "mkdir", results
 in: 
 !man 2 mkdir
 - When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man -s", a count
 before "K" is inserted after the "-s". If there is
 no count, the "-s" is removed.

So 3K should do the trick

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From :h K:

 *K*
K Run a program to lookup the keyword under the
 cursor. [...]
 Special cases:
 - When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man" or starts with
 ":", a [count] before "K" is inserted after
 keywordprg and before the keyword. For example,
 using "2K" while the cursor is on "mkdir", results
 in: 
 !man 2 mkdir
 - When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man -s", a count
 before "K" is inserted after the "-s". If there is
 no count, the "-s" is removed.

So 3K should do the trick

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From :h K:

 *K*
K Run a program to lookup the keyword under the
 cursor. [...]
 Special cases:
 - When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man" or starts with
 ":", a [count] before "K" is inserted after
 keywordprg and before the keyword. For example,
 using "2K" while the cursor is on "mkdir", results
 in: 
 !man 2 mkdir
 - When 'keywordprg' is equal to "man -s", a count
 before "K" is inserted after the "-s". If there is
 no count, the "-s" is removed.

So 3K should do the trick

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If you're on Linux, you're likely using mandb's man, and you can control the order in which sections are searched. See man 1 man:

MANSECT

If $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of sections
and it is used to determine which manual sections to search and in
what order. The default is "1 n l 8 3 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 3am 5 4 9 6
7", unless overridden by the SECTION directive in /etc/manpath.config.

So another option is to set in your shell initialisation files:

MANSECT=3:3posix:3pm:3perl:3am:1:n:l:8:2:5:4:9:6:7
export MANSECT

Or in your vimrc:

let $MANSECT="3:3posix:3pm:3perl:3am:1:n:l:8:2:5:4:9:6:7"

(Also, depending on what you're programming, section 2 might also need a higher priority.)

(Or, as the manpage says, set system-wide in /etc/manpath.config.)

This also works for FreeBSD's man.

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If you're on Linux, you're likely using mandb's man, and you can control the order in which sections are searched. See man 1 man:

MANSECT

If $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of sections
and it is used to determine which manual sections to search and in
what order. The default is "1 n l 8 3 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 3am 5 4 9 6
7", unless overridden by the SECTION directive in /etc/manpath.config.

So another option is to set in your shell initialisation files:

MANSECT=3:3posix:3pm:3perl:3am:1:n:l:8:2:5:4:9:6:7
export MANSECT

Or in your vimrc:

let $MANSECT="3:3posix:3pm:3perl:3am:1:n:l:8:2:5:4:9:6:7"

(Also, depending on what you're programming, section 2 might also need a higher priority.)

(Or, as the manpage says, set system-wide in /etc/manpath.config.)

This also works for FreeBSD's man.

answered 6 mins ago

muru

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up vote
0
down vote

If you're on Linux, you're likely using mandb's man, and you can control the order in which sections are searched. See man 1 man:

MANSECT

If $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of sections
and it is used to determine which manual sections to search and in
what order. The default is "1 n l 8 3 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 3am 5 4 9 6
7", unless overridden by the SECTION directive in /etc/manpath.config.

So another option is to set in your shell initialisation files:

MANSECT=3:3posix:3pm:3perl:3am:1:n:l:8:2:5:4:9:6:7
export MANSECT

Or in your vimrc:

let $MANSECT="3:3posix:3pm:3perl:3am:1:n:l:8:2:5:4:9:6:7"

(Also, depending on what you're programming, section 2 might also need a higher priority.)

(Or, as the manpage says, set system-wide in /etc/manpath.config.)

This also works for FreeBSD's man.

answered 6 mins ago

muru

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If you're on Linux, you're likely using mandb's man, and you can control the order in which sections are searched. See man 1 man:

MANSECT

If $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of sections
and it is used to determine which manual sections to search and in
what order. The default is "1 n l 8 3 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 3am 5 4 9 6
7", unless overridden by the SECTION directive in /etc/manpath.config.

So another option is to set in your shell initialisation files:

MANSECT=3:3posix:3pm:3perl:3am:1:n:l:8:2:5:4:9:6:7
export MANSECT

Or in your vimrc:

let $MANSECT="3:3posix:3pm:3perl:3am:1:n:l:8:2:5:4:9:6:7"

(Also, depending on what you're programming, section 2 might also need a higher priority.)

(Or, as the manpage says, set system-wide in /etc/manpath.config.)

This also works for FreeBSD's man.

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