Pipe Vim buffer to stdout

Question

I\'d like to use Vim in the middle of a pipe. This existing post looks like what I\'d like to do, except I was hoping to do it without Python\'s help -- only with bash. [It it

Answer 1

From my very limited experience, it's not possible to make Vim write to stdout. I don't think you can easily put Vim in a pipe.

You could try the command vipe from this package.