I'm having trouble viewing ri documentation within gvim and MacVim (tried it on both) Some of the ri documentation includes text decorations that look fine when viewed in a terminal window, but include ANSI escape characters when viewing in gvim/MacVim. For example, the following ri snippet from $ri class looks like this in the terminal:
Returns the class of obj, now preferred over Object#type
And this in gvim:
Returns the class of [4mobj[m, now preferred over [7mObject#type[m,
It'd be great to be able to reference legible ri docs within gvim. Any ideas on where to begin looking to fix this?
Try running ri like this:
ri --format=rdoc
AFAIK, the rdoc format is plain text so you won't have to filter out the ANSI escape sequences.
You can probably get "real" plain text by making a shell script like this:
ri --format=bs $@ | sed 's:.^H::g'
Where ^H is a raw Ctrl-H (or whatever backspace is for you), then call that shell script instead of ri.