Good Tools Are Invisible

Re:Good Tools Are Invisible by iLemming on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:13PM (#48875937)

whoa, you can and absolutely should pipe things in and out of vim - it's natural. Emacs on this actually in disadvantage - it doesn't give you a built-in way for piping from and into buffers, but for that there is emacs piper script: https://github.com/agzam/mxp

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Re:Good Tools Are Invisible by frollogaston on Saturday July 11, 2026 @08:41PM (#48877238)

Dunno, never had to do this. At most I might set PAGER=vim which means maybe something else is piping for me. If you're piping with vim then fine, but it's not a requirement to use it, unlike smaller utils that are begging to be piped.

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Re:Good Tools Are Invisible by iLemming on Saturday July 11, 2026 @09:20PM (#48877425)

> never had to do this

is not a defensible argument (regardless of what you use), see the relevant comment here¹

the bigger point is to get more precise and utilitarian control over text which I already discussed here in this thread², piping in and out of your editor buffers sometimes comes very handy.

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¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876315

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48869558

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Re:Good Tools Are Invisible by frollogaston on Sunday July 12, 2026 @12:03PM (#48882174)

Kinda is, maybe I found better ways to avoid or deal with those scenarios.

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