Re: OT: xargs & vi

[Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>]

on Wed, 09 Jan 2002 09:01:45AM -0600, Keith G. Murphy insinuated:
> martin f krafft wrote:
> > so, to close this thread: find . -name Root | vim
> > 
> Not so fast!  Using vim 5.3, I get:
> 
> ls my.txt | vim
> Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
> Empty buffer
> Vim: Error reading input, exiting...
> Vim: preserving files...
> Vim: Finished.
> 
> Also, 
> ls my.txt | xargs vim
> Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
> 
> Then it looks like it's editing the file, but hoses up my telnet
> session, etc.
> 
> Is it because I'm telnetted?  I have no idea...

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 ...

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