Breaks shell redirection and pipes

[ben-cohen-xs]

The file-line plugin breaks shell redirection: the command below should start vim with a buffer containing its manpage, but instead vim shows an empty buffer with a name like "/proc/65432/fd/63".

vim <(man vim)

The plugin breaks it because it tries to re-read the buffer, which is not possible from a pipe. You can fix the example above like this, though it would be better to do a more general check for pipes (and other special files) because they can also only be read once.

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< if match(expand("%:p"), "^/proc/.*/fd/.*$") < 0 && match(expand("%:p"), "^/dev/fd/.*$") < 0 && !isdirectory(expand("%:p"))
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> if !isdirectory(expand("%:p"))

[xim]

We could just add a test for !filereadable(expand("%")) so startup isn't called if there's already something readable there.

[ben-cohen-xs]

Yes, this works for me and is neater than the change in my previous comment:

if !filereadable(expand("%:p")) && !isdirectory(expand("%:p"))

[kaddkaka]

Any progress on this issue?