Why doesn't “history | vim” work?

Question

I want to use the Vim to see the result of history (not in the shell). I think history | vim will work (use the result of history as t

Answer 1

Apart of vim -, you may try bash command substitution like:

vim <(history)

See also:

• How to write whole buffer to standard output from the command line? at Vim SE
• How to edit files non-interactively (e.g. in pipeline)? at Vim SE