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Re: [Help-nano] using --noread with a named pipe


From: Benno Schulenberg
Subject: Re: [Help-nano] using --noread with a named pipe
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:27:21 +0100
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Op 14-01-18 om 19:52 schreef MikiStrange:
What I am trying to do is to encrypt the contents of Nano without them being written to disk at any point before the encryption process begins. When I
read the explanation of -n --noread it said that the use for this option is to
pipe to a named pipe.
Indeed.  And I broke that three years ago.  :|  With this commit:

    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/commit/?id=98ffb642


The bug has been rereported as https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52896.

Attached patch should fix it.  (It should apply cleanly to 2.9.2, or
really any version since 2.4.3.)  If you could test...

Benno

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