On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:11:56PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.1716 +0100]:
| > 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 ...
|
| wow, i can't either anymore. seriously. and i swear it worked yesterday.
You left the 'xargs' out of your conclusion statement.
| but you know what, this is getting tiring... here the summary
|
| to open a list of files given by a command in vim:
|
| vim `command`
This works. What did "command" output for you? I do this all the
time, eg
vim `find src -name \*.java -print`
| if this complains about too long an argument list,
Hmm, yeah, I guess that could happen.
| you either should reconsider (noone wants to edit 500 files), or:
|
| for i in `command`; do vi $i; done
|
| which is exactly why xargs was created in the first place.
|
| contrary to expectations,
|
| command | xargs vim
|
| works with an error message, but it hoses your terminal.
Not all terminals. See ":help --"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This argument can mean two things, depending on whether Ex
mode is to be used.
Starting in Normal mode:
vim - or ex -v -
Start editing a new buffer, which is filled with text
that is read from stdin. The commands that would normally be
read from stdin will now be read from stderr. Example:
find . -name "*.c" -print | vim -
The buffer will be marked modified, because it contains text
that needs to be saved. Except when in readonly mode, then
the buffer is not marked modified. Example:
ls | view -
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I guess some terms don't like sending keystrokes on stderr.
| 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.
Yeah, again :
command | xargs vim -
works, in gnome-terminal at least. I expect that
command | xargs gvim
will work regardless since gvim has no ties to the console.
-D
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