What is a way to read man pages in vim without using temporary files

Question

I want to be able to read man pages in vim. For some reason, it seems that vim isn\'t able to read the output of programs through piping (i.e \'(man ls) | vi\' doesn\'t seem

Answer 1

For some reason, it seems that vim isn't able to read the output of programs through piping […]

According to the man-page, you need to specify a file of - to get it to read from standard input; so:

man ls | vi -

If that doesn't work, you might try using process substitution:

vi <(man $1)

which creates a sort of pseudo-file and passes it to vi.