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Starting with Vim 8.0.1308 (Nov 2017), you can use the --not-a-term option to suppress this message; for example with quit:

$ echo hello | vi - --not-a-term -esc '%p|q!'
hello

Or with exit:

$ echo hello | vi - --not-a-term -esc 'x!/dev/stdout'
hello

Starting with Vim 8.0.1308 (Nov 2017), you can use the "--not-a-term" option with "quit":

$ echo hello | vi - --not-a-term -esc '%p|q!'
hello

Or with "exit":

$ echo hello | vi - --not-a-term -esc 'x!/dev/stdout'
hello

http://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1552

Starting with Vim 8.0.1308 (Nov 2017), you can use the "--not-a-term" option with "quit":

$ echo hello | vi - --not-a-term -esc '%p|q!'
hello

Or with "exit":

$ echo hello | vi - --not-a-term -esc 'x!/dev/stdout'
hello

http://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1552

Starting with Vim 8.0.1308 (Nov 2017), you can use the --not-a-term option to suppress this message; for example with quit:

$ echo hello | vi - --not-a-term -esc '%p|q!'
hello

Or with exit:

$ echo hello | vi - --not-a-term -esc 'x!/dev/stdout'
hello

MCVE with :quit

$ echo hello | vi - -esc '%p|q!'
Vim: Reading from stdin...
hello

Fix with :quit

$ echo hello | vi -esc '%p|q' /dev/stdin
hello

MCVE with :exit

$ echo hello | vi - -esc 'x!/dev/stdout'
Vim: Reading from stdin...
hello

Fix with :exit

$ echo hello | vi - -esc 'x!/dev/stderr' 2>&1 >/dev/null
hello

http://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1552

Starting with Vim 8.0.1308 (Nov 2017), you can use the "--not-a-term" option with "quit":

$ echo hello | vi - --not-a-term -esc '%p|q!'
hello

Or with "exit":

$ echo hello | vi - --not-a-term -esc 'x!/dev/stdout'
hello

http://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1552