vim - How to send commands to gvim when using --remote?

Question

I want to look at the output of a command in a GVim window that's already opened.

To look at the output of a command in a new GVim window, I'd do:

mycommand | gvim -

To open a file an existing window, I'd do:

gvim --remote-silent myfile

How do I use them together? mycommand | gvim --remote-silent - does not work (it thinks - is a file in the current directory).

Answer 1

Try gvim --remote-silent <(mycommand).