vp (vim pipe)

Spawn $EDITOR for use in a pipe command. If the editor exits with nonzero status (:cq in vim), the pipeline is aborted. This is very much like the vipe program in moreutils, except it forwards its arguments to the editor. It also supports (n)vim shorthand for setting the filetype (see example below).

Examples

$ curl https://get.docker.com | vp | sh

View bash script before executing.

$ cat query-template.sql | vp +"/{" | sqlite3 file.db

This argument tells vim (the configured editor) to jump to the template marker '{' so that a query template can be filled in and passed to sqlite.

$ cat data.json | vp json | jq '.foo.bar'

Shorthand for vp +"set ft=json". Setting the filetype in vim enables syntax highlighting, linting, and so on. Modelines are sometimes used to do this, but not all files have them, and many people like to disable them for security reasons. Also, filetype detection often does not work when no file extension is available.

Installation

$ cargo install vp