Re: [Help-bash] How to set the terminal to vim?

[Peng Yu]

On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, Greg Wooledge <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 09:23:12AM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> > I see the following warning. It is because the bash script takes the
> > stdin. Does anybody know how to make vim get back the stdin? Thanks.
>
> > $ ./main.sh  </dev/null
> > Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
>
> Well, the obvious first step would be not redirecting stdin from /dev/null.
> It's kinda hard to get useful data from there.
>
> > $ cat main.sh
> > #!/usr/bin/env bash
> >
> > while read -r -d $'\n' line
> > do
> >   echo "$line"
> > done
> > vim main.sh
>
> What is this supposed to do?  You have a loop that reads stdin until
> EOF, and then you have another process that wants to read the same stdin
> after EOF.
>
> Did you want vim to read from the user's terminal instead of script's
> stdin?
> If that's the case, then:
>
> vim main.sh </dev/tty
>
> It would help if you would SAY what you are doing, instead of always
> making people guess.  There's plenty of room left in the email for
> a description of the problem.
>
> By the way, read -d $'\n' is redundant.  That's just the same as read.
>

My question is to set stdin back to vim. These answers did address my
questions.


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Regards,
Peng