(Sent directly and to list; list moderator -- if any -- is welcome to reject this.)
Tim Chase wrote: > I'm playing around with a curses program and would like it to behave > similarly to how vim lets me do > > $ echo hello | vim - > > where vim reads data from stdin but then interacts with the terminal > directrly. What magic is vim doing here? I don't know what vim is doing, but I suspect it works like password prompts in pipelines, eg: $ someprogram | ssh user@site "sh someotherprogram -" user@site password: $ Those read from STDERR to get keyboard input in the face of STDIN being NOTATTY. Elijah -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/495ZTJ5qJSzfYt%40panix5.panix.com.