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Comment by iLemming

4 months ago

whoa, you can and absolutely should pipe things in and out of vim - it's natural. Emacs on this actually in disadvantage - it doesn't give you a built-in way for piping from and into buffers, but for that there is emacs piper script: https://github.com/agzam/mxp

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frollogaston  4 months ago

Dunno, never had to do this. At most I might set PAGER=vim which means maybe something else is piping for me. If you're piping with vim then fine, but it's not a requirement to use it, unlike smaller utils that are begging to be piped.

  • iLemming  4 months ago

    > never had to do this

    is not a defensible argument (regardless of what you use), see the relevant comment here¹

    the bigger point is to get more precise and utilitarian control over text which I already discussed here in this thread², piping in and out of your editor buffers sometimes comes very handy.

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    ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48869558