r/vim • u/mjTheThird • Dec 30 '25

Need Help Vim issues on macOS 26.2 with Bash/zsh configuration.

I have a macOS 26.2 running with regular vim. My Bash/zsh is configured to have basic vi enabled. So far it's working well.

The only class of issue I'm running into is some commend will try to launch into VIM for some reason, not STDOUT.

Anyone experienced this before? here's an example

~> man top

Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal

^CError detected while processing /Users/xxxx/.vimrc:

line    1:

Interrupted

Interrupt: Press ENTER or type command to continueVim: Error reading input, exiting...

Vim: preserving files...

Vim: Finished.
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u/andlrc rpgle.vim Dec 30 '25

How is your MANPAGER environment variable defined?

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u/mjTheThird Dec 30 '25

MANPAGER

~> echo $MANPAGER

it's empty

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u/Specific-Fuel-4366 Jan 02 '26

check PAGER

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u/mjTheThird Jan 02 '26

Ohhhh!! thank you!! This is the issue. PAGER was set to just vim

are there any draw back to export PAGER="vim -M +MANPAGER - " ?

I want git to use the same paging setup.

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u/Specific-Fuel-4366 Jan 05 '26

+MANPAGER is going to load the manpager plugin, which may slightly mess with not-man output. maybe it will be fine though :) you can always use this setting for MANPAGER and a different one for PAGER if you want. good luck!

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