patch 8.2.0431: some compilers don't support using e for Esc Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/56ba21a156c723d92a1929e2c500be7295efb0a8 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Mon Mar 23 19:17:29 2020 +0100 patch 8.2.0431: some compilers don't support using \e for Esc Problem: Some compilers don't support using \e for Esc. (Yegappan Lakshmanan) Solution: use \033 instead.

@echo off
rem batch file to start Vim with less.vim.
rem Read stdin if no arguments were given.
rem Written by Ken Takata.

if "%1"=="" (
  vim --cmd "let no_plugin_maps = 1" -c "runtime! macros/less.vim" -
) else (
  vim --cmd "let no_plugin_maps = 1" -c "runtime! macros/less.vim" %*
)