Pipe Into Vim

You can pipe stuff stuff into vim. I didn’t know about this, but take a look at the second usage example in the output of vim -h: ~ $ vim -h VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Jan 29 2023 18:57:15) Usage: vim [arguments] [file ..] edit specified file(s) or: vim [arguments] - read text from stdin or: vim [arguments] -t tag edit file where tag is defined or: vim [arguments] -q [errorfile] edit file with first error Just pass - to open up a new buffer with the output of something. Read more