vipe — Run a text editor in the middle of a UNIX pipeline. More information: <https://manned.org/vipe>.

Edit the output of `command1` before piping it into `command2`

{{command1}} | vipe | {{command2}}

Buffer the output of `command1` in a temporary file with the specified file extension in order to aid syntax highlighting

{{command1}} | vipe --suffix {{json}} | {{command2}}

Use the specified text editor

{{command1}} | EDITOR={{vim}} vipe | {{command2}}