ANSI Color Codes in VIM

Question

I have a script that generates a log file with ANSI color codes in them like so:

[2012-05-14 18:00:02] ^[[0mINF: -- Starting update script --^[[0m
[2012-05-1         


        

Answer 1

I'm not sure about vim, but if you're just viewing a log file (ie you don't need to be able to edit) you could use less:

less -R