On 8/27/17, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: > Hello everyone. Someone asked a little while ago about a suckless pager > and I mentioned using vipe of moreutils to use your favorite editor as a > pager. I noticed that when I was using vipe it was using several > megabytes (it is written in Perl) so I wrote a program in Bourne shell > that is much smaller in RAM usage. It has the -v (view only) option to > not produce any output so it can truly be used as a pager. It can be > found at https://github.com/GReagle/edit-pipe/blob/master/edit-pipe. I > would love any feedback about making it better, more correct, more > portable, etc. Thanks for your attention. > >
why don't you open the fucking vipe script and read it? it's short and readable guess what it does: - it dumps the input to a temp file - sets up redirections to /dev/tty - runs an editor on that temp file - prints it out - unlink the temp file YOU WROTE THE EXACT SAME THING you literally have ZERO control over the amount of memory you use i don't even understand if this is supposed to be a joke or what kys
