How to pipe program output in an editor?

Question

I have my program generating some data. It output everything on standard error.

Now I'd like to redirect the output to a newly started text editor, into the main unnamed edit window that shows at startup. I tried with vim and gedit without success.

myprogram | gedit
myprogram | gvim

Anyone knows about an X11 text editor that would support this?

Answer 1

I don't know of any editor that supports this, but redirecting to a temp file might be easier.

F=$(mktemp)
myprogram >$F
gedit $F
rm $F

Answer 2

If you want to redirect stderr of your program in to gvim you can do:

myprogram 2>&1 | gvim -

and in case if you want to redirect the stdout to the editor you can do:

myprogram| gvim -