You can replace colordiff with vim's less tool (/usr/share/vim/vim74/macros/less.sh ) or vimpager (https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager https://github.com/rkito

You can replace colordiff with vim's less tool (/usr/share/vim/vim74/macros/less.sh ) or vimpager (https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager). icdiff is also nice to have a side-by-side colored diff (https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff). And of course, you could use meld, vimdiff, kompare etc. with the same bash anonymous pipes indirection.