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vim-groff-viewer : Display Groff files in a document viewer

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created by
Gene
 
script type
ftplugin
 
description
A Vim filetype plugin for displaying Groff files in a document viewer as determined by the system default or chosen by the user. The document viewer used should auto-reload and preferably support the postscript file format - examples are Zathura, Evince, Okular or Xreader.

Usage, configuration, etc: https://preciouschicken.com/software/vim-groff-viewer/

Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NOvAKriByM
 
install details
Install using your preferred plugin manager, for instance with vim-plug:

  Plug 'PreciousChicken/vim-groff-viewer'

or dein.vim:

  call dein#add('PreciousChicken/vim-groff-viewer')

Alternatively manually install using the Linux terminal:

  mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/preciouschicken/start/groff-viewer
  git clone https://github.com/PreciousChicken/vim-groff-viewer.git ~/.vim/pack/preciouschicken/start/groff-viewer

Ensure that you have the line 'filetype plugin on' added to your .vimrc if not already.

Helptags for the plugin can be loaded by using the command ':helptags ALL' when a groff file is open. Help will then be accessible within Vim via ':help groff-viewer'.
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
vim-groff-viewer-2.1.0.tar.gz v2.1.0 2024-06-02 7.0 Gene Now incorporates grog to determine macro package (e.g. me, ms, etc) and preprocessor (e.g. -j, -p, -t).
vim-groff-viewer-2.0.2.tar.gz v2.0.2 2023-08-16 7.0 Gene Fixes breaking change in Neovim where plugin disabled by default.
vim-groff-viewer-2.0.1.tar.gz v2.0.1 2023-06-19 7.0 Gene Disabled wordcount functionality for mom macro only.
vim-groff-viewer-2.0.0.tar.gz v2.0.0 2022-11-08 7.0 Gene Added word / character count functionality, changed all mapping from <leader> to <localleader>.
vim-groff-viewer-1.0.4.tar.gz v1.0.4 2022-09-10 7.0 Gene Fixed error with printing of non me macro documents, fixed error message when non-groff buffer open at same time.
vim-groff-viewer-1.0.2.tar.gz v1.0.2 2022-09-09 7.0 Gene Fixed error where whitespace in path would create empty file.
vim-groff-viewer-1.0.1.tar.gz v1.0.1 2022-08-07 7.0 Gene Fixed error where mupdf was unable to open a pdf created with `-T pdf` flag.
vim-groff-viewer.tar.gz v1.0.0 2022-05-19 7.0 Gene Initial upload
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