Re: gx strange behavior

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 19:40:01 -0700 (PDT)
Tom M <7tommm@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 10:48:08 AM UTC+2, Manfred Lotz 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?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Manfred
> >
>
> A solution (or workaround?) to (the root cause of) this issue has
> been posted in this group a few weeks back in this discussion:
> "netrw#BrowseX fails when invoked from gvim on Ubuntu"
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/vim_use/cTo_VUtA250/sEgu2wOHAwAJ
>
> The trick is to use:
> :!xdg-open http://www.vim.org &
>
> instead of:
> :!xdg-open http://www.vim.org
>
> Note the ampersand at the end of the first command. See the original
> discussion for more details.
>

Didn't help. Same as before nothing happens when typing gx.

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Manfred

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