v now automatically reads from stdin
I previously wrote v to help with a couple of my common wants when starting Vim. Something I often forget is to pass the - when piping stdin to Vim, expecting it to behave in the same way as other commands like less. So I’ve updated v to automatically pass the - argument to Vim if it detects that it’s receiving content from stdin.
Here’s what now happens:
$ echo testy | v
Vim: Reading from stdin...
As ever the source is on GitHub. For the curious here are the tests for this newly added functionality.
Also on medium.com.