From 435e4038e090576c3b9d0d8b43fd56546653d717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Patrick McCabe <cmccabe@alumni.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 16:04:07 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add vimstart

---
 Makefile   |    2 ++
 vimstart.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 xx         |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 vimstart.c
 create mode 100755 xx

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 27e3efd..22ef97c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -6,5 +6,7 @@ errno_speak:	errno_speak.o
 
 simple_time:	simple_time.o
 
+vimstart:	vimstart.o
+
 clean:
 	rm -rf errno_speak simple_time *.o
diff --git a/vimstart.c b/vimstart.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a72e878
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vimstart.c
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	close(0); /* close stdin */
+
+	 /* duplicate stdin from stderr */
+	if (dup(2) < 0) {
+		perror("dup failed:");
+		return 1;
+	}
+	execvp("/usr/bin/vim", argv);
+	perror("could not execute program");
+	return 1;
+}
diff --git a/xx b/xx
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..11910cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xx
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+die() {
+	echo $@
+	exit 1
+}
+
+VIMSTART=`dirname $0`/vimstart
+[ -e "${VIMSTART}" ] || die "can't find vimstart program"
+
+FILES=""
+while read LINE; do
+	if [ -e "${LINE}" ]; then
+		FILES="${FILES} ${LINE}"
+	else
+		echo "no such file as '${LINE}'"
+	fi
+done
+
+${VIMSTART} ${FILES}
-- 
1.6.6.rc1.39.g9a42