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I didn't realize that you could do something like: vim <(find . | grep coolfile) until just the other week, pretty dang useful.

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I often use `git grep something | vim -` which puts list of files into vim with line numbers, and then I do `gF` to get to file and particular line.

I didn't realize vim supported reading from standard in, thanks!

You can go one further. I have an alias 'cbuf=vim - -ccbuf!'

This takes whatever is piped in and loads it into the quickfix list. So I get locations out of anything with lines of the format "file:line: something" or "file:line:col: something".

Eg: git grep -n | cbuf

One of my favorite discoveries as well! I sometimes (rarely) compare archives with:

    diff <(tar tzf f1.tgz) <(tar tzf f2.tgz)

Or diffs of diffs:

    diff <(git diff --cached) the-patch-alice-proposed

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