Re: [vox-tech] reading gzip'd files inline

[jdnewmiMAPSl@dcn.davis.ca.us]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Micah Cowan wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:06:38PM -0800, jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Micah Cowan wrote:

[...]

> > > vi <(gzip -d -c doc.txt.gz)
> > > gv <(gzip -d -c doc.ps.gz)
> > > 
> > > Which will only work if the program doesn't mind fifos and doesn't try
> > > to use things like ftell(), fseek(), etc.
> > 
> > I guess the first command must include the "-" argument.
> > 
> > It is interesting to consider what must be happening here when you
> > actually do put the "-" in ... you have redirected vi input from the
> > terminal to a pipe.  Since vim actually handles this okay, it must be
> > reading to the end of the pipe and then resetting control back to the
> > controlling terminal by itself so you can give it editing commands.  
> > Quite a slick trick. :)
> 
> I don't understand your response at all - I assume you're talking
> about the first command of /my/ reply, since you replied to my
> message?

Yes.  Sorry for the imprecision.

> My commands aren't piping or redirecting to standard input of
> anything; the <(command) construct actually takes the output of
> whatever command is and writes it to a temporary fifo, and gets
> replaced in the command line by the name of that fifo.  This allows
> you to redirect program output to programs which can't /read/ standard
> input as files.

Learn something new every day.

> If you're /not/ responding to my post, I don't see how vim can
> "actually handle this okay", since there is no possible way to "reset"
> control back to the controlling terminal for programs whose input is
> piped, because at the time they're invoked, standard input has already
> been set to the pipe.

Then explain

 vi - <whateverfileyouwant.txt

> Okay, I suppose it could dup() stdout if it detects that that is a
> terminal, but that'd be very cludgey and un-vim-like.

Now where is that source...

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