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Finding man pages from Neovim with Telescope and/or mini.pick (opens in new tab)

I use man pages all the time, but sometimes I do not know exactly what I want to open. printf is a good example. There is printf(1) for the shell command, printf(3) for the C library function, and depending on what is installed locally there may be even more entries around it. I wanted something simple inside Neovim: list local man pages fuzzy search them see the section before opening open using Neovim's built-in :Man So I made a small plugin: man.nvim. Source: GitHub: What it does The plugi...

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