on Wed, 09 Jan 2002 09:01:45AM -0600, Keith G. Murphy insinuated: > martin f krafft wrote: > > so, to close this thread: find . -name Root | vim > > > Not so fast! Using vim 5.3, I get: > > ls my.txt | vim > Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal > Empty buffer > Vim: Error reading input, exiting... > Vim: preserving files... > Vim: Finished. > > Also, > ls my.txt | xargs vim > Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal > > Then it looks like it's editing the file, but hoses up my telnet > session, etc. > > Is it because I'm telnetted? I have no idea...
hosing up the telnet session, yes. i would guess. but using vimm 6.0.93 locally, i get the same results and error messages inputting to vim from stdin. i can't reproduce your conclusive results on my machine, martin ... </nori> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-------------------------------------------------- -------------------------http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html