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

[Peng Yu]

On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, Greg Wooledge <address@hidden
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','address@hidden');>> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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.
>>
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> My question is to set stdin back to vim. These answers did address my
> questions.
>
I meant "did not"

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> --
> Regards,
> Peng
>


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Regards,
Peng