On 12 Jan 99 at 16:56, E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...The problem is that the script gets its > standard input from the pipe, and vi needs input from a tty. Your > current tty is /dev/tty. This works: > > #! /bin/bash > # mymore > > $TMPFILE=/tmp/mymore.$$.tmp > > while read line; do > echo $line >> $TMPFILE > done > > vi $TMPFILE < /dev/tty > rm -f $TMPFILE It works. The $TMPFILE variable is another improvement. Thanks! BTW: It turns out that the base distrib of Hamm uses a cruder 'vi' clone with fewer error messages than regular Hamm. When I tried piping to a fancier 'vi' later on, after reading your post, it actually had an informative error message about the /dev/tty input.
