Cool.

cat .gvimrc | enscript -p - | open -f -a Skim

That's neat. This suggests a skimcat:

skimcat () { cat $* | enscript -p - | open -f -a Skim; }

or (in CSH):

alias skimcat "cat \!* | enscript -p - | open -f -a Skim"

Neat.

Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, at 09:46AM, "Ted Pavlic"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On the Skim wiki:
>> 
>> http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Tips_and_Tricks#Reading_man_pages_in_Skim
>> 
>> 
>> It states: ===== The following line can be used to show the man
>> page for bash in Skim (of course this works for any shell command).
>>  =====
>> 
>> However, this only works for shell commands that output PostScript.
>> It doesn't work for plain text.
>> 
>> Is there any way to have Skim display text files on a white
>> background? I guess a better question asks if there is any way to
>> generate PostScript easily from text files. <?>
> 
> man -k postscript indicates that enscript(1) might be what you're
> looking for.
> 

-- 
Ted Pavlic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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