On 22/07/09 10:53, 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.
>
> Kind regards, Roald
AFAIK, Vim can read its input editfile on stdin (if called with a single
dash at the end of the command-line) but it won't write its output
editfile to stdout. To feed Vim's output to a program which wants it on
stdin, write it to some filename (e.g. using ":saveas") and feed it to
the next program by means of input redirection:
vim
...
:saveas ~/foobar.txt
:qa
someprogram < ~/foobar.txt
Best regards,
Tony.
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