Small fish script you can set as $MANPAGER to view manpages in bbedit

bbman.fish

#!/usr/bin/env fish

# derived from Dr Drang's bman: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2022/03/last-man-standing/
# set this as your $MANPAGER to have manpages automatically open in bbedit

# col -bx to strip the formatting, read -z to make it all one string rather than an array
col -bx | read -z manbuffer

# lets us set a man-esque window title, e.g. "awk(1)"
set manname (string lower (string match -r '^[^)]+\)' $manbuffer))

# this feels painfully non-idiomatic
echo $manbuffer | bbedit --new-window --clean --view-top -m "unix-man-page" -t $manname