Re: How to save filtered less results in a file or on stdout

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Tue 06 Apr 2021 at 01:09:09 (+0100), jr wrote:
> on Mon, 5 Apr 2021 17:44:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > If you are willing to learn (neo)vim, '(n)vim -R' as 'view' can be used
> > instead of 'less', with all the power of an advanced editor at your
> > disposal.

… or '| vim -R -' or even '| vim -' in place of '| less'.

But I don't know how vim would do on-the-fly filtering like
less can do with & (not being very familiar with vim).

> or just press 'v' in 'less'?

$ sort -m /var/log/kern.log /var/log/user.log | EDITOR=emacs less

Pressing v gives me:

    Cannot edit standard input  (press RETURN)

Cheers,
David.