On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:24:28AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0124 +0100]: | > :-). Hmm, interesting, vim is able to read the filename from stdin. | | ??? | | echo .muttrc | vim - | | gives me a new file in vim with contents ".muttrc", but it doesn't open | .muttrc...
That is supposed to happen. I tried what you were doing : ls .muttrc | xargs vim I didn't think that would work (once I straightened out my understanding of the stdin stuff), but it does. -D -- "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions." --Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)