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Nice answer. This one directly addresses the user's question, and offers a quick and elegant solution: redirect vim to /dev/tty! Simple!

Mike S
– Mike S

2016-05-10 23:49:39 +00:00
Commented May 10, 2016 at 23:49
I'm using Zsh; trap '...' exit fails but trap '...' EXIT appears to work. I don't know much about trapping, but my general approach for temporary files is to use mktmp [--suffix=...]. Also, vim <outfile> -c '...' >/dev/tty runs as normal until the file is loaded, then executes the given command chain, including :wq if you want to skip the editing phase. I also used set | grep -a EXIT and found signals=(EXIT ... DEBUG).

John P
– John P

2017-07-04 19:21:06 +00:00
Commented Jul 4, 2017 at 19:21

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