Document how to use pipes and redirection with 'bind'

When my bind command using a pipe did not work, I grepped through the docs for 'pipe' and 'redirection' with no results. Only after I found out in the issues tracker that it was intentional, then I noticed the solution in the examples, too. Add a paragraph to make it more explicit. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <[email protected]>
jonas · Jun 1, 2020 · 2fb8025 · 2fb8025
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@@ -690,6 +690,9 @@ console output shown (as if '!' was specified). When multiple command options
 are specified their behavior are combined, e.g. "?<git commit" will prompt the
 user whether to execute the command and will exit Tig after completion.
 
+Note that if you want to use pipes or redirection in your commands then you
+must run them in a subshell, i.e. embed your commands in `sh -c '<commands>'`.
+
 Browsing state variables
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