Re: netrw#BrowseX fails when invoked from gvim on Ubuntu

Garvin Haslett wrote:
> I am using Vim 8.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.3
>
> If I launch gvim and enter
>
> :call netrw#BrowseX('http://github.com', 0)
>
> the window flickers instantaneously and nothing further happens.
>
> Performing the same action in terminal vim opens the URL in the
> browser as expected.
>
> It seems likely that this is an issue with how Gnome hands this off to
> Linux. But where do I begin to prove this?
>
Well, here's two issues:

1) netrw requires a trailing "/", so you need 'http://github.com/' . 
Didn't you get an error message at the bottom of the display?
2) unless you're hosting github.com on your personal pc, you probably
want "remote"

When I tried this with gx with the cursor atop the (corrected)
http://github.com/ string, I got the html source as expected; that's
with Scientific Linux.
So, as Christian Brabandt said, use netrw's debug mode and find out what
its doing on your system.  If doing like I did (with gx) works, then run
debugging with that, too, and compare.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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