On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:11:56 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > any form of 'vim -' will read the data to be edited from stdin, not the > filenames, so it's not appropriate. > > and even though i swear it worked, > > command | vim > > just dies with > > Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal > Vim: Error reading input, exiting... > Vim: Finished. Look. Vim, or any other text based program needs to "talk" to the terminal. If you put it at the end of a pipe, the program is essentially run in the background without access to the terminal. Vim sees that, and quits. It's the sensible thing to do. So, don't invoke it that way. $ vim $(subshell program returning a list of filenames) -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
