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While adding a package from AUR, I encountered errors that seem to stem from faulty stdin. This error crops up during the 'Downloading PKGBUILD' section, where the editor is expected to view(?) the file. The error varies from editor to editor, but I was able to capture the one from vim and nano (respectively), which are:

Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
Vim: Error reading input, exiting...
Vim: preserving files...
Vim: Finished.

and:

Too many errors from stdin

These errors can be reproduced in both editors, even when tested under two different shells: bash and oksh. There is no difference in behaviour for either shell or editor.

I tried to dig the cause to the issue and have found that when this invocation of $EDITOR is changed from -R to -, both vim and nano behave as expected (PKGBUILD is viewed and no crash is seen). Was there a particular reason to use -R here in place of the usual -?

Other than the assumption above, I have also tried to reinstall pacom from AUR as well as compiling my own from this repository with no change; reinstalling fails to resolve this issue.

My machine uses the following:

• Arch, latest update as of time of writing
• oksh 7.0 and bash 5.1.8
• urvxt for terminal
• vim 8.2 and nano 5.9
• pacom 1.0.5