Re: Using gx with text-only browser

On Friday, April 1, 2016 at 8:44:50 PM UTC+13, Peter King wrote:
> I usually use nvim at the console and would like to set gx to open a URL
> under the cursor with /usr/bin/links... All that happens, though, is that
> the console screen blinks while the lookup silently fails.

Netrw is redirecting standard input and output to /dev/null, to avoid browser messages; this directly clobbers links' IO. It's running, you just can't see it or type anything into it.

As a workaround, create a script called, say, vimlinks, in your $PATH with the following:

#!/bin/bash
links </dev/tty >/dev/tty 2>/dev/tty "$@"

chmod +x it:

chmod +x vimlinks

then in vim use

let netrw_browsex_viewer = "vimlinks"

Regards, John Little

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