On 16/04/10 18:59, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
no,no,no...I LIKE context sensitive highlightning in vim! :)
But:
Some tools, which normally are made fpr output directly to
the console use ESC-sequences to color parts of the text.
From time to time I use the tool 'script' to log all of
the text into a file to review it later (I cannot read
at the speed these are spitting out dozens of words... ;)
I like to use vim for that ... but these [XXX] escape
sequences makes reading the output a very diffcult task, since they
are not interpreted by vim.
Piping the output through col -b remove a part of those but
by far not all.
Is there any way to get back my love "pure ascii" ???
Best regards and have a nice weekend!
mcc
col -b should remove a lot of escape / backspace sequences. I'm not sure
which ones it misses, but if you can identify them, it should be easy to
define a :s[ubstitute] command to filter them out. Or else, even without
col -b, this sounds like a typical job for a Vim version compiled with
Vince Negri's conceal patch (No. 14 at
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches ), and maybe some
appropriate syntax script to display the colours but not the control
sequences.
Example: remove Esc then [ then any number of semicolon-separated
decimal numbers then one letter, or Esc then one character which is not
a left bracket (untested):
:%s/\e\%(\%([[]\%(\d\+;\)*\d\+\a\)\|[^[]\)//g
See ":help pattern-overview" and what follows.
Best regards,
Tony.
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