Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: hack request

[Phil Frost]

use view -c 'set syn=diff'. You can also :set syn=diff if you have
already loaded the file. With some autocmd magic you could probably make
it happen automatically. Another thing you can do is

:r !tla changes --diffs

to write the output to the current buffer. And then you could write a
function that opens a new window, runs tla changes, sets the
syntax...and....

Maybe I'll do some of that some day :) I think I've looked, but there
might be some things already on vim.sf.net.

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 08:57:22AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 08:42, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> > * Zenaan Harkness <address@hidden> [Oct 02, 2004 00:40]:
> > > when I run "tla changes -scD --diffs|less", I'd love to have the feature
> > > that the diff lines that contain the file names of the diffed files,
> > > were in some color, like blue, so that they are highlighted, like
> > > "ls --color" does.
> > 
> > Pipe it to vimless instead; provided you have vim around.  less.sh
> > (vimless) can be found in $VIMRUNTIME/macros/.
> 
> I edit in vim, and it syntax highlights rather nicely.
> 
> When I run the above (or Phil's version) it just comes up plain.
> 
> If I first pipe the output to "t.diff" then open that file in
> vim, it does syntax highlight.
> 
> Anyone know if vim can be forced to syntax highlight when loading
> from stdin?
> 
> If worst comes to worst, I can create the file and load it in vim
> all within a function or something.
> 
> BTW, thanks for the very fast response.