Re: gx strange behavior

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 10:48:00 +0200
Manfred Lotz <ml_news@posteo.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have Fedora 31 and Fedora 32. Happens on both systems.
>
> I want to open an URL in my browser and type `gx` when the cursor is
> over an URL in vim resp. gvim
>
>
> Doing this for example in an markdown document it works fine for vim
> but nothing happens when doing the same in gvim.
>
> When debugging (i.e. starting vim resp. gvim with `-V9vim.log`) I see:
>
> line 2: sourcing "/usr/share/vim/vim82/autoload/netrw.vim"
> finished sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim82/autoload/netrw.vim
> continuing in <SNR>67_VersionAwareNetrwBrowseX
> :!setsid xdg-open
> 'https://realpython.com/python-data-types/'>/dev/null
> 2>&1
>
> Calling shell to execute: "setsid xdg-open
> 'https://realpython.com/python-data-types/'>/dev/null 2>&1"
>
>
> Any idea how to find out why gvim behaves differently?
>
>

I found something. When invoking `:sh` in vim I get a clean zsh shell.
When invoking `:sh` in gvim I get a zsh shell with strange control
characters in the prompt.

Current workaround is setting shell to bash:
:set shell=/usr/bin/bash


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Manfred


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