Navigating Man Pages in Vim
If you program in C you probably look to the man pages as a prime reference. There are a lot of different functions in the standard library. For example, what does this all mean?
sscanf(str, "%*d: %12[^a-zA-Z] 0x%4x %n", ...)
Luckily in Vim I can just press K over sscanf and in a window split I'll have the man page. Now this isn't a new feature, except that the man page opens in a Vim window not in a pager. This is a feature enabled by enabling a plugin that ships with Vim.
As an additional bonus the man page has syntax highlighting and is tagged so you can travel between man pages with CTRL-] and CTRL-T. Now when you see the references (like getc(3)) you can just scroll over and hit CTRL-] to view it.
To enable this plugin, and map K to use ...
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