Timeline for How to invoke vim editor and pipe output to bash

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Jul 4, 2017 at 19:21	comment	added	John P		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)`.
May 10, 2016 at 23:49	comment	added	Mike S		Nice answer. This one directly addresses the user's question, and offers a quick and elegant solution: redirect vim to /dev/tty! Simple!
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