Get user input inside of a shell script

[tdaron]

Hey !

I'm currently having a very simple script man.sh containing:

read manpage
man $manpage | cat

And a helix shortcut:

"backspace" = {l=[":hnew", ":insert-output sh ./man.sh","collapse_selection"]}

but i can't figure how to get the read working (to get which manpage user wanna see)

Any ideas ? Is it even possible ?

(and how do i tell helix the new buffer is readonly and does not need to be saved ?)

[tdaron]

The only program i could find that do that is lf

when i do :insert-output lf , it show me the filepicker and i can choose a file, but i couldn't manage to make a custom bash script retrieving user input works inside of helix

:insert-output read -r something

is not working, and read exits with status 1 which means it instantly get EOF, why is helix sending EOF to read ?

[kirawi]

#1976

[tdaron]

Thanks ! I will try something using wezterm then !

But do you know why especially lf works the way i want without any trick ? i just ran insert-output lf and it works the way i want

[gabydd]

Was looking into this and lf uses /dev/tty

[tdaron]

thanks