til/vim/opening-man-pages-in-vim.md

Opening Man Pages In Vim

In Quick Man Pages, I explained how the ft-man-plugin allows you to quickly open man pages with K. For times when the particular command isn't in the buffer or the command contains a hyphen, you can instead use :Man. With the ft-man-plugin enabled, you can use :Man with the name of any command that has a manual page and the respective man page will be opened in a split buffer. For example, check out git log with:

:Man git-log

If you don't want the first manual entry, provide a specific number. For instance, you can open the echo(3) man page with:

:Man 3 echo

See :h :Man for more details.