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

Your example code is wrong.

   tempo=`mktemp`
   man $1 > $tempo; vi $tempo

But you really only need

   man $1 | vi -