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

On Nov 23, 2013 9:43 PM, "Peng Yu" <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Something like 'grep --color' (although it produces colored output)
> won't cause the problem. You have to use ack. Did you use ack?

It will. Just make sure you use 'grep --color=always'. By default 'grep --color=auto' is used which will not cause problems.

> ~$ ack --version
> ack 2.02
> Running under Perl 5.14.2 at /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.14/bin/perl
>
> Copyright 2005-2013 Andy Lester.
>
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> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Gabriele Lana <gabriele.lana@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 23, 2013, at 6:07 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 -'
> >>
> >
> >> […]
> >>
> >>  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
> >
> >
> > I'm unable to reproduce your problem, seems like whenever I pipe something in my shell the ansi escapes are stripped… maybe one of the zsh magic tricks? I don't know
> >
> > Anyway, something like
> >
> > alias less='sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]//g" | vim -R -'
> >
> > should work (not tested)
> >
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