Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, May 20, 2012 6:36:02 PM UTC-5, Scott wrote: >> I know I'm trying to abuse Vim in ways it's not supposed to be used, but I'm >> just wondering if this is possible ... >> >> Is there any way to configure vim to syntax highlight stdin & NOT paginate? >> >> eg. ./myprog | vim --insert-magic-here >> >> The less.sh script does all the syntax highlighting I want, but it paginates >> it's output which I do not want. >> > > You will probably need to set the filetype manually, but Vim can easily > handle stuff from stdin. E.g. > > ./myprog | vim -c "setl filetype=myfiletype" -
Vim can automatically detect file files from stdin for some file types by looking at the content. This is done in $VIMRUNTIME/scripts.vim. It should work for xml files for example: $ vim - < foo.xml -- Dominique -- 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
