Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal

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I wrote simple jsonview script to view json files:

#!/bin/bash
tmp_file=/tmp/jsonview.json
cat "${@}" | python -m json.tool > $tmp_file
[[ -f $tmp_file ]]  &&  vim $tmp_file

I am not using less because I need syntax highlighting. That useless use of cat cat ${@} | ... is so that script can be used as a filter: 

jsonview t.json

and:

cat t.json | jsonview

If jsonview used as in second, pipe case - despite the fact that vim is invoked not on pipe but on concrete file, I am getting that warning in subject. I can view json file, but after exit, it messes up terminal. Why is this warning? Why vim thinks that it reads from a pipe?

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2 Answers

you can also do vim $tmp_file </dev/tty to tell vim input is from the terminal and not from standard input.

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