[PLUGIN] Lessdiff -> colourised diffs via less

[Michael Ellerman]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:19, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:00:59PM -0600, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Hiya,
> >
> > I've gone mental with this bzr command + less thing.
> >
> > I've just implemented lessdiff, it runs diff via less, which is not that
> > exciting. BUT, if you have colordiff installed you'll get coloured diffs
> > - super cool.
>
> And a small hack on that to run it through 'vim -c "set syntax=diff" -'
> instead of PAGER. Next, trying to figure out why vim doesn't recognise
> bzr diff output currently.

Could it be the colour cruft that colourdiff adds? Less barfs on that gear 
unless you specifiy -R.

Let me know if you get it working, we could come up with something less hacky, 
and environment variable or something to choose vim.

cheers

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