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I open man pages in vim, per
export MANPAGER="vim -M +MANPAGER -"
in my zshrc.
However, vim has syntax highlighting enabled when it opens a man page. Is there a way to ensure man pages always have syntax off / that vim, when opening man pages, respects the vimrc?
You can pass an additional syntax off command to the vim command line in $MANPAGER, using the -c option argument to pass Vim an Ex command to run during startup:
export MANPAGER="vim -M +MANPAGER -c 'syntax off' -"
