Thanks! I'll have a look at those.

On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 3:33:31 AM UTC-4, Jakob Borg wrote:
>
> I think your best bet is to open a TTY manually when you detect that 
> stdout is not a tty. You can use for example 
> https://github.com/mattn/go-isatty to determine this. An 
> `os.Open("/dev/tty")` might be enough, otherwise a package like 
> https://github.com/mattn/go-tty shows some of the setup you might need to 
> do. You then give this file as the stdout file descriptor to vim. 
>
> Clearly this only works on systems that have a /dev/tty, but you're 
> already limited to system that have a vim so this might be fine. 
>
> //jb 
>
>
> > On 26 Aug 2017, at 07:58, juicemia <hugo.to...@gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > 
> > Hi everybody. 
> > 
> > I don't know if this question has been asked before, partially because I 
> don't really even know what to call what I'm trying to do. 
> > 
> > The best I can come up with is that I'm trying to do lazy redirection in 
> bash but I'm having some trouble. 
> > 
> > A concrete example should help explain: 
> > 
> > I have a Go program. Part of this program's execution is to open up Vim 
> for some editing. The user can then save and close, and the program will 
> continue working using the user's input into Vim. 
> > 
> > That works well. However, it breaks down when I do something like the 
> following: 
> > 
> > program | grep 'foo' 
> > 
> > When I do this, Vim complains about stdout not being a terminal. I 
> realize this is because the pipe redirects the stdout of program to the 
> stdin of grep _before_ the execution of program, not after. 
> > 
> > Is there any way I can get the redirection to happen _after_ program has 
> executed? 
> > 
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