Re: How to pipe colored output to vim and show it correctly?

On Nov 23, 2013 9:07 PM, "Peng Yu" <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have the following alias which works fine when uncolored input.
>
> ~/linux/test/gnu/ack-grep/--color$ alias less
> alias less='vim -R -'
>
> ~/linux/test/gnu/ack-grep/--color$ cat.sh *.txt
> ==> test1.txt <==
> ABC
>
> ==> test2.txt <==
> AXY
> ~/linux/test/gnu/ack-grep/--color$ printf "%s\n" *.txt|ack --color -x A
> test1.txt
> 1:ABC
>
> test2.txt
> 1:AXY
>
> But when the input is colored,
> ~/linux/test/gnu/ack-grep/--color$ printf "%s\n" *.txt|ack --color -x A|less
>
> I see the following in vim. Does anybody know how to make the correct
> alias of less that it works for both colored cases and uncolored
> cases? Thanks.
>
>   1 ^[[1;32mtest1.txt^[[0m:^[[1;33m1^[[0m:^[[30;43mA^[[0mBC^[[0m^[[K
>   2 ^[[1;32mtest2.txt^[[0m:^[[1;33m1^[[0m:^[[30;43mA^[[0mXY^[[0m^[[K

There is :AnsiEsc command provided by vimscript #302. It will make this output colored in vim, hiding (assuming vim was compiled with +conceal) or removing this sequences. It will disable other highlighting though if you use any with this buffer.

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> Peng
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