" NOTE: The global man ftplugin enables wrapping which I want off (see below), " which is why this needs to be in after/. setlocal nospell " man(1) will assume it can use the full width of the terminal when " hard-wrapping the lines. When signcolumn is enabled the width is one cell " smaller and thus, lines that have a character in the last column will be " wrapped by vim (i.e. almost all of them). setlocal signcolumn=no " Make scrolling easier/more reactive through a big scrolloff setlocal scrolloff=999 " Position cursor in the middle when launching so that scrolling down starts " immediately normal M " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ " From :h :Man: " " when running `man` from the shell and with that `MANPAGER` [='nvim +Man!'] " in your environment, `man` will pre-format the manpage using `groff`. " Thus, Nvim will inevitably display the manual page as it was passed to it " from stdin. One of the caveats of this is that the width will _always_ be " hard-wrapped " " Since I actually don't like `g:man_hardwrap=0`/`MANPAGER=999` (e.g. scrolling " can be a mess with very long wrapped lines), the following autocommand is " meant to reload the manpage through `:edit` after every resize, so that its " hard-wrapping adjusts to the new size. " " This is slightly hacky, but does its job quite well. augroup man_resized " The reload has to be delayed slightly, since with an `edit` directly in " the autocmd, the buffer will just be cleared? (TODO) " NOTE: One could add a wrapper function that checks for the existence of " already running timers similar to how it's done in the " highlight_current group (see autocommands.vim), but this feels " overkill here. au! WinResized call timer_start(10, function("s:edit_delayed")) augroup END " The function can't be redefined during the reload of the ftplugin (i.e. " triggered by `edit`), since it is currently executing (i.e. `edit`): " " E127: Cannot redefine function 94_edit_delayed: It is in use " if !exists("*s:edit_delayed") function s:edit_delayed(timer_id) edit endfunction endif " When wrapping is turned on, shrinking the window will momentarily rewrap the " lines, messing up the whole buffer. Since this is distracting, turn it off. setlocal nowrap " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------