John H. Robinson, IV said:
> James Keeline wrote:
>> The subject pretty much says it all. Sometimes I'd like to view a file (not
>> edit it) and less is a good tool. However, as near as I can tell, it does
>> not
>> offer the color syntax highlighting as seen in vim.
>
> I don't think so. But vim does. And vim can be configured to be used
> like a pager. See the instructions here:
>
> http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=121
>
I was pretty sure that vim needed no real configuration to do this. I did a
google
search and found a vim man page that says this:
Vim behaves differently, depending on the name of the command (the exe-
cutable may still be the same file).
vim The "normal" way, everything is default.
ex Start in Ex mode. Go to Normal mode with the ":vi" command.
Can also be done with the "-e" argument.
view Start in read-only mode. You will be protected from writing
the files. Can also be done with the "-R" argument.
gvim gview
The GUI version. Starts a new window. Can also be done with
the "-g" argument.
rvim rview rgvim rgview
Like the above, but with restrictions. It will not be possi-
ble to start shell commands, or suspend Vim. Can also be
done with the "-Z" argument.
Of course key-mappings and syntax highlighting would need configuration still.
But,
if vim is already doing this, then there shouldn't be much left other than minor
customizations, I would think.
Wade Curry
syntaxman o _ _ _
_o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_)
_< \_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/'\/
(_)>(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_
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