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

A lot of good answers, with respect to plugins it's worth to add that vim-man^* provides a set of convenience functions to open and read man pages:

Viewing man pages, as per docs.

• :Man printf - open printf(1) man page in a split
• :Vman 3 putc - open putc(3) man page in a vertical split
• :Man pri - command completion for man page names

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^{* Available on GitHub: https://github.com/vim-utils/vim-man.}