Something like 'grep --color' (although it produces colored output) won't cause the problem. You have to use ack. Did you use ack?
~$ ack --version ack 2.02 Running under Perl 5.14.2 at /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.14/bin/perl Copyright 2005-2013 Andy Lester. This program is free software. You may modify or distribute it under the terms of the Artistic License v2.0. On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Gabriele Lana <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) > > -- > Gabriele Lana > contact me at gabrielelana at cleancode dot it > http://www.cleancode.it - what we do and what we believe in > http://www.gabrielelana.it - agile methodologies and programming > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_use/Ba1SfjC7J-M/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Regards, Peng -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
