Re: follow link on internet with vim

Thanks everybody for your answers.

In fact, without doing anything, gx works on my laptop!


On mar., 2019-07-09 at 08:21 -0700, Pete Doherty wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 11:09:16 AM UTC-4, Enno wrote:
> > Le mardi 9 juillet 2019 10:32:52 UTC-3, Tony Mechelynck a écrit :
> > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 2:56 PM Mathieu Roux wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to follow a link with vim? for exemple, if my
> > > > cursor is
> > > > on https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim
> > > > i want to use my browser to go to this website.
> > > >
> > > > By the same way, i can open a file with "gf" if my cursor is on
> > > > the
> > > > file's name. But i don't know how to follow a link.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Mathieu
> > >
> > > I don't know if it is possible, but I know where to find the
> > > answer:
> > >
> > > :help netrw
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Tony.
> >
> > Thus, if elinks is installed, then typing `gf` will open the link
> > as text in Vim.
> > Typing `gx` will open it with the program attached to links in the
> > OS. On Linux, if one does not use Gnome or KDE desktop environment,
> > then adding
> >
> > let g:netrw_browsex_viewer = "xdg-open"
> >
> > to the vimrc seems necessary.
>
> Both `gf` and `gx` worked for me as described using Debian/i3
> (without having to set `g:netrw_browsex_viewer`).
>
> Thanks for sharing this simple solution, Enno!
>
> PRD
>
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