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diff --git a/plugins/README.md b/plugins/README.md index 59ae281..2744822 100644 --- a/plugins/README.md +++ b/plugins/README.md @@ -198,9 +198,9 @@ Usage examples can be found in the Examples section below. If `NNN_FIFO` is set, `nnn` will open it and write every hovered files. This can be used in plugins and external scripts, e.g. to implement file previews. -If a `NNN_FIFO` is set globally, each `nnn` instance will write to it, and a process reading from the pipe will get hovered path from every instance, interleaved. +The easiest way to set `NNN_FIFO` is to start `nnn` with the `-a` option, to automatically setup a temporary FIFO file for this `nnn` instance. -If you want to prevent this and be sure to have a private pipe to one `nnn` instance, you can unlink (remove) the FIFO file. If you had opened the FIFO before and you have read from it (so that `nnn` have it opened too), you can still read from it while you don't close it. But new `nnn` instances will recreate a new FIFO not linked to the previous one. +If a `NNN_FIFO` environment variable is set globally (and `-a` is not passed to `nnn`), each `nnn` instance will write to the same FIFO, and a process reading from the pipe will get hovered path from every instance, interleaved. Don't forget to fork in the background to avoid blocking `nnn`. @@ -246,13 +246,6 @@ There are many plugins provided by `nnn` which can be used as examples. Here are fi while read FILE ; do - if [ -n "$NNN_FIFO" ] ; then - # If you want to remove the FIFO, - # don't do it before first read, - # nnn won't have it opened yet - rm "$NNN_FIFO" - NNN_FIFO= - fi printf "%s" "$FILE" | xsel done < "$NNN_FIFO" & disown |