Re: Inline text editor?

[Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>]

At 2002-08-07T20:30:27Z, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <dman@dman.ddts.net> writes:

> vim can read the data from stdin.  Then it can pipe the buffer through a
> program and replace the buffer with the output (hence encrypting it).  It
> can also merely pipe the buffer through a program (hence sending it where
> ever it was you wanted).

Thanks for the idea, but I'd prefer something a little "cleaner" that
involved less deliberate user interaction.  Imagine that the goal was to
create a new program called vipgp.  A user would execute 'vipgp foo.pgp' to
start editing the file.  When they were done, they'd type ':wq', and vipgp
would write the encrypted results to foo.pgp.  That's more or less what I'm
trying to accomplish, minus a few irrelevant details.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/