VIMCAT(1)

📦 version 2.06, in arch rolling

🌈 VIMCAT(1) — the vimcat manual, but make it a group chat 💅

ok so this is the manual page for vimcat, section 1 of the manual, and bestie you're gonna love her.

✨ NAME ✨

vimcat — syntax highlighting but make it vim, like, the whole point 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vimcat some_file

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one file, one cat, one slay 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what she does is she cats a file to stdout — but she syntax-highlights it using vim as a backend. literally cat behavior but the file looks iconic in your terminal instead of, you know, flat 😭🔥

she lives on GitHub, go say hi: http://github.com/rkitover/vimpager

ok here's the tea on customizing her 🫶 if you wanna use a different vimrc with vimcat, just put your settings into a ~/.vimcatrc.

and if you want to disable loading plugins? put set noloadplugins into a ~/.vimcatrc file. that's the whole trick, no cap ✨

👑 COMMAND LINE OPTIONS 👑

💜 -c cmd

run a vim command after opening the file. and yes, multiple -c arguments are supported — stack 'em, go off, we love a flexible queen 👑

💜 --cmd cmd

run a vim command when entering vim before anything else. multiple --cmd arguments are supported too — she's highkey an overachiever 💅

💜 -u vimrc

use an alternate .vimrc or .vimcatrc. switching up the fit, respect 🎀

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

Abdó Roig-Maranges <abdo.roig@gmail.com>. give her her flowers 🌸👑

ok tiny reminder bestie: -c runs after the file's opened, --cmd runs before anything else. don't mix them up, i'm begging 🙈

💖 that's the whole page!! this was the vimcat user manual, dated April 29, 2015, and it's serving main character energy from a repo that lives at http://github.com/rkitover/vimpager. periodt. go highlight something cute ✨🦋🍓

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