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

[Phil Frost]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 02:16:41AM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> * Zenaan Harkness <address@hidden> [Oct 02, 2004 01:00]:
> > > 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.
> 
> This should be done fine.  Vim does some contents checking when it fails
> to determine filetype based on extension (which is rather hard to do on
> stdin) and it works fine for diff's here.  I don't know how long
> contents checking for diff contents has been around, but it's in 6.3 for
> sure,
>       nikolai

It works here on the output of say, diff -u or svn diff, but not tla. I
assume it's because of the extra information tla outputs at the top of
the file.