On Wed, September 8, 2010 1:16 am, Simon Ruderich wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 01:26:32PM -0700, Rahul wrote: >> Is there a convenient way to edit /etc/motd (or for that matter any >> other file that has color codes / multibyte characters in it)? The >> usual problem is that many if the file has a color code (say, >> ^[[33m^[[1m ) then this occupies multiple characters in the editor but >> zero characters when finally displayed. Hence it is hard to get the >> alignment right without lots of trial and error. For an example see >> below. >> >> I was wondering if vim had a smart way of dealing with this?! > > You could use the new conceal support in Vim 7.3. >
Have never used it, but I believe AnsiEsc[1] by Charles Campbell does conceal color codes. [1]http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=302 regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
