Actually I didn't lose colors.  It seems like colordiff is not needed if
you use vimpager as vimpager itself colorize output.
On Nov 8, 2011 3:47 AM, "Scott Stevenson" <scott@scottstvnsn.com> wrote:

> On 08/11/11 at 08:19 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > That said, reverting to plain diff will cause me to lose colorization,
> no?
> > Hmmm... time to whup up some vim syntax script, then...
>
> I don't use vimpager, but is it not possible to just issue set
> filetype=diff from within for syntax highlighting? Also upon further
> inspection, vimpager >= 1.4.2 should filter out escape sequences [1] so
> you may want to update if you're running an older version.
>
> [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1723
>
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> Scott Stevenson
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