Comment 28 for bug 9054

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TuteC (tutecosta) wrote : Re: [Bug 9054] Re: gedit does not read from a pipe

I love you too, sorry for the inconveniences.
Sometimes we are needed to recieve RTFMs to learn.
Thank you anyway.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Pedro Villavicencio<email address hidden> wrote:
> The bug was sent upstream and it's confirmed there as well, there's no
> need to re-re-re-re- confirm the issue with comments here, there's a
> nice button on the top of this reports that says "affects me too" please
> press that and subscribe to the report, commenting only generates bug
> noise, if you want this to be fixed then provide a patch. Thanks.
>
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> gedit does not read from a pipe
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/9054
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>
> Status in gedit - Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: Confirmed
> Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> The GNOME text editor, gedit, has a cool and documented feature (by documented I
> mean they tell about it in the man page) which allows it to read input from a
> pipe. For example 'ls -lR | gedit' allows one to open a new buffer in gedit and
> populate it with the output of 'ls -lR'.  This does not seem to work in Ubuntu,
> and thus breaks some of my working habits. Would it be possible to enable this
> feature in future releases ?
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121891: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121891
>