The escape sequences from ! shell command output are shown raw instead of being printed out. Changing this behavior to print out escape sequences would be useful because programs sometimes color their output with escape sequences and I would like to see those colors and other modified text attributes when filtering lines from nvi. For example, trying to filter a diff through diff-so-fancy, a diff colorizer:

ed prints out escape sequences, so it would be logical for nvi to do the same.

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!shell command output are shown raw instead of being printed out. Changing this behavior to print out escape sequences would be useful because programs sometimes color their output with escape sequences and I would like to see those colors and other modified text attributes when filtering lines fromnvi. For example, trying to filter a diff throughdiff-so-fancy, a diff colorizer:edprints out escape sequences, so it would be logical fornvito do the same.