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In Vim, it's possible to tell it to read from stdin instead of a file, by using vim -. This is so that you can pipe the output of one command into Vim, to view/edit it there. The problem I'm facin...
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Alexei
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2022-01-13T06:09:23Z (almost 3 years ago)
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2022-01-13T00:44:53Z (almost 3 years ago)
Continuously read from piped input using Vim
In Vim, it's possible to tell it to read from stdin instead of a file, by using `vim -`. This is so that you can pipe the output of one command into Vim, to view/edit it there. The problem I'm facing is that Vim seems to wait until the pipe is closed before starting up and displaying anything. It sits there saying `Vim: Reading from stdin...` until the piped command terminates. This can be a very long time, depending on the command! Is there any way I can get Vim to instead start displaying immediately, and autoread as more data comes from the pipe? My use case is trying to use Vim as a pager, so that I can have custom syntax highlighting and folding, for Git logs. My current attempts are failing because Vim waits until the **entire** log has been loaded before displaying anything at all.