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Steve Searle
steve at stevesearle.com
Sun Apr 5 15:51:09 UTC 2009
Around 03:41pm on Sunday, April 05, 2009 (UK time), Garry T. Williams scrawled:
> On Friday 03 April 2009 04:00:45 Steve Searle wrote:
> > round 03:18am on Friday, April 03, 2009 (UK time), Paul Ward
> scrawled:
> > > I was wanting to look at a file the other day and my colleague
> > > insisted I do not use less but view instead.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Also you can't pipe into it, e.g you can't use view to do something
> > like:
> >
> > $ dmesg | less
>
> Of course you can:
>
> $ dmesg|view -
> Vim: Reading from stdin...
> $
And then I get:
Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
Vim: Error reading input, exiting...
Vim: preserving files...
Vim: Finished.
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