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[OT] Vim and stdin [Re: [screen-devel] Terminal VIM run from xargs...]
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Micah Cowan |
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[OT] Vim and stdin [Re: [screen-devel] Terminal VIM run from xargs...] |
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Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:33:17 -0700 |
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Erik Falor wrote:
> I've never gotten Vim to work interactively when on the
> receiving end of a pipe.
Try "<something> | vim -". Vim will interpret stdin as a file to be
read, and attempt to look elsewhere for the controlling term.
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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/