How to come back from the pipe file? How to come back from the pipe file? linux linux

How to come back from the pipe file?


First of all,a FIFO is a blocking IO. A process blocks on reading a FIFO, that is, when you issue vim somefifo, the vim process waits until another process opens the somefifo for writing.

So you can try another process, e.g., issue echo "foo">somefifo in a new terminal, then you can do normal operation in your vim process, like ZQ to quit.