From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!mhtsa!allegra!jdd
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: useful view extension
Article-I.D.: allegra.562
Posted: Thu Oct 28 09:41:09 1982
Received: Fri Oct 29 01:35:41 1982

To extend Tim Maroney's suggestion, I'd like the editors (vi,
Emacs, etc.) to deal with standard input and standard output
in a useful Unixy fashion, so I could do:

	more `ls | vi -`

or:

	emacs - | netnews -i "useful mail extensions" -n net.unix-wizards

Of course, you can do these things from inside the editors (with some
work) but I'd like to be able to do them from outside too.

A screen editor I wrote some while ago (which I gave up in favor of Emacs)
has this feature.  Complications include not reading / writing standard
input / output if it's a tty, not writing more than one copy to standard
output (unless specifically desired), etc.

Cheers,
John DeTreville
Bell Labs, Murray Hill