From fbc6934f8f7bea680e117908de590f1a3f895556 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bretello <bretello@distruzione.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:52:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] functions: add vimscratch

use `vimscratch` to open a scratch vim buffer.

If run in a pipe, it uses `stdin` as input:

```bash
<command> | vimscratch
```
---
 functions/vim.zsh | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 functions/vim.zsh

diff --git a/functions/vim.zsh b/functions/vim.zsh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..89e0328
--- /dev/null
+++ b/functions/vim.zsh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# open vim with a scratch window that can be discarded on exit.
+vimscratch() {
+    local args
+    # if running in a pipe, use stdin (-) as arg.
+    # -t checks if the given FD is a terminal
+    if [ -t 0 ] ; then
+        args="$@"
+    else
+        args="-"
+    fi
+    vim -c "set buftype=nofile" "$args"
+}