Re: [MLUG] pager with syntax highlighting

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Russell Horn wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
> > So it would be nice if less could be expanded to include syntax
> > highlighting, or maybe a popular editor like vim could be given a
> > pager mode where it would do paging with syntax highlighting (and
> > maybe an option to load the file and edit it on the fly).
> >
> > Let me know if you hear of any such developments.
>
> Vim has a pager mode
>
> $VIMRUNTIME/macros/less.sh
>
> You can also install highlight and then set up an alias to do something like:
>
> highlight --ansi myfile.php | less -r
>
> Highlight is available here:
>
> http://www.andre-simon.de/zip/download.html


That is very cool.  I was not familiar with highlight.  I'll definitely 
want to use that with less in a little script to make it easier.

Thanks!

Mike

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