Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: hack request

[John Meinel]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 08:42, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>
> > * Zenaan Harkness <address@hidden> [Oct 02, 2004 00:40]:
> >
> > > when I run "tla changes -scD --diffs|less", I'd love to have the feature
> > > that the diff lines that contain the file names of the diffed files,
> > > were in some color, like blue, so that they are highlighted, like
> > > "ls --color" does.
> >
> > Pipe it to vimless instead; provided you have vim around.  less.sh
> > (vimless) can be found in $VIMRUNTIME/macros/.
>
>
> I edit in vim, and it syntax highlights rather nicely.
>
> When I run the above (or Phil's version) it just comes up plain.
>
> If I first pipe the output to "t.diff" then open that file in
> vim, it does syntax highlight.
>
> Anyone know if vim can be forced to syntax highlight when loading
> from stdin?
>
> If worst comes to worst, I can create the file and load it in vim
> all within a function or something.
>
> BTW, thanks for the very fast response.
>
> tia
> zen

Actually, you probably just want:
tla changes --diffs | vim -

view is probably aliased to vi, not to vim.

Raw vi doesn't do syntax highlighting.

But even if that doesn't work you can always type:
:set syntax=diff

Which tells vim to do 'diff' style syntax highlighting.

John
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