On Tue 06 Apr 2021 at 09:12:45 (+0000), Curt wrote: > On 2021-04-06, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > On Tue 06 Apr 2021 at 01:09:09 (+0100), jr wrote: > >> on Mon, 5 Apr 2021 17:44:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> > If you are willing to learn (neo)vim, '(n)vim -R' as 'view' can be used > >> > instead of 'less', with all the power of an advanced editor at your > >> > disposal. > > > > … or '| vim -R -' or even '| vim -' in place of '| less'. > > > > But I don't know how vim would do on-the-fly filtering like > > less can do with & (not being very familiar with vim). > > :g/pattern/.w! >> output.txt > > I pressed 'v' in less, searched a pattern and wrote the filtered output > to a file using the method above. Seemed to work except the results of > the filtering are not visualized using this method. Of course, you can > visualize them prior to writing the results to a file (:g/pattern). > Maybe a little fastidious.
OK, you "pressed 'v' in less", but what was your command line? Without that, it's difficult to replicate your actions. > >> or just press 'v' in 'less'? > > > > $ sort -m /var/log/kern.log /var/log/user.log | EDITOR=emacs less > > > > Pressing v gives me: > > > > Cannot edit standard input (press RETURN) Cheers, David.
