>
> The point is that there is no functional reason that Vim has to use
> "-" to mean that its buffer contents are coming from stdin. My
> guess is that Vim's use of "-" is another quirk resulting from its
> historical connections to vi, ex and ed.
Then, how could you do something like this if stdin is always threated
as input file?:
echo ":wq"|vim foo.txt
Quite unuseful, ok. But we could add much more commands to the input stream.
Well, this is not the "normal" use of vim. But is it "echo something |
vim -" as well?
Regards.
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