From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!tim
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: useful view extension
Article-I.D.: unc.4171
Posted: Thu Oct 28 00:06:27 1982
Received: Thu Oct 28 06:53:36 1982

It would be very useful if the next release of vi allowed
view to read a file from the standard input if no file
argument is given. It would read in the entire file, ignoring
all characters except EOF (and possibly interrupt), then
start up vi with readonly set on the file. The file of course
would get stored in /tmp. A useful option for this would be
-n, meaning just send the input to the standard output if it's
less than n lines long. Berkeley, do you read?

					Tim Maroney   unc!tim