I found many sites saying that vim can be used as a pager like less with syntax highlighting.
So to make it work I added this line to my .bash_aliases file:
alias vless='vim -u /usr/share/vim/vim73/macros/less.vim' but when I run something like
ps -A | vless It gives this output and exits without showing me the output of ps:
Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal Please help!
I found the problem. The above command vim -u /usr/share/vim/vim73/macros/less.vim is not handling input from STDIN correctly. However, opening a file with the above works just fine.
Fortunately the Vim installation provides a shell script less.sh which loads less.vim and handles the case where input is from STDIN correctly. So changing the alias to this works:
alias vless = '/usr/share/vim/vim73/macros/less.sh'