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Pipe file list to vim and browser them like a folder

Is it possible to pipe list of files e.g. from grep and have this file list opened in vim file manager in similar fashion like when you open a folder with vim?

Note that I do not want to just write the file names into vim buffer like a text. I want vim to treat them as if these files were in a folder and I would be able to choose which one to open.

EDIT: Thanks to your great advice I could add these two functions in my .bashrc, they do almost exactly what I want:

# Find files by name in the notes and open them as subset in vim, opens first file in the search in the buffer: function notefv { vim --cmd 'set efm=%f' -c copen -q <(find ~/Notes -name "*$1*") } # Grep notes for a keyword, open the result in vim quickfix list, opens first file in the search in the buffer function noteg { vim --cmd 'set efm=%f' -c copen -q <(grep -irl --color $1 ~/Notes/*) } 

This uses native vim functionality. if I'll have nothing to do, I'll try to rewrite it so that the subset of files is opened in dervish or NerdTree.

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