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

This happend to me trying to send it to background console (&)

One script used:

... 
vi "$file" &
...
# change to just:

vi "$file"

removing &, problem went away.