Re: Meta: reading file from stdin while still interacting with the terminal

(Sent directly and to list; list moderator -- if any -- is welcome
to reject this.)

Tim Chase wrote:
> I'm playing around with a curses program and would like it to behave
> similarly to how vim lets me do
>
> $ echo hello | vim -
>
> where vim reads data from stdin but then interacts with the terminal
> directrly. What magic is vim doing here?

I don't know what vim is doing, but I suspect it works like password
prompts in pipelines, eg:

$ someprogram | ssh user@site "sh someotherprogram -"
user@site password:
$

Those read from STDERR to get keyboard input in the face of STDIN being
NOTATTY.

Elijah

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