How to make Emacs read buffer from stdin on start?

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With Vim I can easily do Is it possible to do with Emacs? Is it really impossible to read a buffer from a unix pipe? Edit: As a solution, I wrote a shell wrapper named :

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$ echo 123 | vim -

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