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  • I kind of get your desire to fill up this site with as many questions as possible but… that question has been answered dozens of times over the years on SO/SU and elsewhere: xargs uses a dummy stdin that can't be used by Vim and breaks everything afterwards. Commented Feb 5, 2015 at 9:08
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    @romainl I'm not active on those sites, and I've never seen it asked there — honest. Commented Feb 5, 2015 at 9:09
  • Related: superuser.com/questions/336016/… - perhaps someone can condense the top answers to a great answer. Commented Feb 5, 2015 at 10:53
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    Great question - this has happened to me numerous times. Also, I don't use any other SO sites - if it's vim-related, I'd like to find it here. Commented Feb 5, 2015 at 19:38