Saturday, January 27, 2018

Re: Print to PDF (and open in browser)

2018-01-27 13:29 GMT+03:00 <slackyman76@gmail.com>:
> Hello (sorry for my poor English),
>
> I need to send a lot of emails (50-70) from lists everyday and I had found a good way to save my time pasting the list to Writer, exporting it to pdf, opening pdf in chromium and going directly to Gmail when I click on the links.
>
> Then I started to learn Vim (few months ago) and I found a new way to do the job with one command: in my .vimrc I put the following remap
>
> "PRINT TO PDF / PRINT AND OPEN TO CHROMIUM
> nmap <C-Home> :ha > newfile.ps <cr> :! ps2pdf newfile.ps<cr>:! rm newfile.ps<cr>
> nmap <C-S-Home> :ha > newfile.ps <cr> :! ps2pdf newfile.ps<cr>:! rm newfile.ps && chromium newfile.pdf<cr>
>
> So, in the first line I put the command to create a PDF.
> In the second line I create PDF and open it to chromium (Debian is my OS, and Chromium is my default and favorite browser).
> Then, as above, I click on the addresses in PDF document and go directly to Gmail, which is my default email "client" (ok, it's not a client but I set it to be the default email).
>
> The only problem is that I have to rename "newfile" to a different name everytime. It's not a dramatic issue indeed, but...
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) Is there a more elegant or effective way to do the same things?
>
> 2) Is there a way to open an email address from VIM and land in Gmail without creating a PDF? In Vim I open urls using gx but it doesn't work with email addresses.

foo@bar.baz looks much like going to bar.baz via http protocol (or
https in some cases due to HSTS), using user foo: you may check
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL#Syntax: side from omitting a
protocol this is a valid URL interpretation and http/https is the
default one. You should be able to do what is needed if you add
`mailto:` before emails so chromium would know what exactly you need.

>
> Thank you! :-)
>
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