On Nov 23, 2013, at 6:07 PM, Peng Yu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have the following alias which works fine when uncolored input.
> 
> ~/linux/test/gnu/ack-grep/--color$ alias less
> alias less='vim -R -'
> 

> […]
> 
>  1 ^[[1;32mtest1.txt^[[0m:^[[1;33m1^[[0m:^[[30;43mA^[[0mBC^[[0m^[[K
>  2 ^[[1;32mtest2.txt^[[0m:^[[1;33m1^[[0m:^[[30;43mA^[[0mXY^[[0m^[[K


I'm unable to reproduce your problem, seems like whenever I pipe something in 
my shell the ansi escapes are stripped… maybe one of the zsh magic tricks? I 
don't know

Anyway, something like

alias less='sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]//g" | vim -R -'

should work (not tested)

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