Ilya Dogolazky wrote: > How does vim's syntax highlighting help here? > I agree this was, what in German is called "Voll daneben" :) > The only way I know is to read such files with "less -r". If you know > how to force vim to interpret escape sequences --- please explain how > to do it. If you want to remove all escape codes, you could use: :%s/<1b>\[[0-9;]*m//g https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/485/can-vim-interpret-terminal-color-escape-codes I personally do not use colored output, but the question is interesting. I also do not use Micheles scripts, because of pbuilder - it is too heavy for me. But I used various parts to setup my build process, which is continious work in progress :)