On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Roald wrote: > > Thanks for the replies, but that was not exactly what I meant. The > example was just an example. Another example would be: > vim | mail -s “subject” [email protected] > I'm more interested in the general case. Piping is something very > common in unix, and I wondered if vim supported it fully.
I think vim unlike sed does not work well as a filter for pipe. sed basically scans from top to bottom sequentially while vim has to seek forward and backward inside its buffer. -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
