I've been using source-highlight[1] to achieve the same result. [edit]: alias ccat="source-highlight --out-format=esc --style-file=/usr/share/source-highlight/

I've been using source-highlight[1] to achieve the same result. [edit]: alias ccat="source-highlight --out-format=esc --style-file=/usr/share/source-highlight/esc.style --failsafe -i " I'll have to see how this compares. [1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/ http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/