If you have a bunch of files with color escape sequences in them, such as "^[[1m^[[31m", use this snippet to blow them away. Don't forget that the "^[" construct is actually a single 'escape'.

I got tired of trying to get vim to honor the minimal-match modifiers. Another case of perl to the rescue!

%perl -e "while (1) { send_comments(etchorner); }"

while (<INPUT>) {
    $_ =~ s/\e\[.+?m//g;
    print;
}
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