Re: Using vim to syntax highlight stdin

On Sunday, May 20, 2012 6:36:02 PM UTC-5, Scott wrote:
> I know I'm trying to abuse Vim in ways it's not supposed to be used, but I'm just wondering if this is possible ...
>
> Is there any way to configure vim to syntax highlight stdin & NOT paginate?
>
> eg. ./myprog | vim --insert-magic-here
>
> The less.sh script does all the syntax highlighting I want, but it paginates it's output which I do not want.
>

You will probably need to set the filetype manually, but Vim can easily handle stuff from stdin. E.g.

./myprog | vim -c "setl filetype=myfiletype" -

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