To use Vim as a pager for man I haveexport MANPAGER=/usr/share/vim/vim73/macros/manpager.shin my profile. Now man pages look very good with colors and stuff. However, when trying man ascii as a way of looking at the ASCII table, I notice that the table is mis-aligned as in the screenshot below:This problem doesn't happen to the default pager. When I set export MANPAGER=view - the table is also correct, so something must be wrong with the manpager.sh script:#!/bin/shsed -e 's/\x1B\[[[:digit:]]\+m//g' | col -b | \vim \    -c 'let no_plugin_maps = 1' \    -c 'set nolist nomod ft=man' \    -c 'let g:showmarks_enable=0' \    -c 'runtime! macros/less.vim' -How can I fix this?
`man ascii` is misaligned when using vim as a pager
vim;man;pager
When I try with the following script things are normal:#!/bin/shsed -e 's/\x1B\[[[:digit:]]\+m//g' | \vim \    -c 'let no_plugin_maps = 1' \    -c 'set nolist nomod ft=man' \    -c 'let g:showmarks_enable=0' \    -c 'runtime! macros/less.vim' -I'm not sure what role col plays in the sequence, but it is certainly messing up the spaces. Until somebody gives a better solution, this will be my fix.Edit: so col was the problem because it replaces white-space characters with tabs where possible. To fix this tell col to use spaces instead of tabs with the -x option. The final config is as follow (with credit to Gilles).#!/bin/shsed -e 's/\x1B\[[[:digit:]]\+m//g' | col -bx | \vim \    -c 'let no_plugin_maps = 1' \    -c 'set nolist nomod ft=man' \    -c 'let g:showmarks_enable=0' \    -c 'runtime! macros/less.vim' -