Re: Gvim message on XDG textedit URL link

Perhaps I was not clear. The string 'textedit' has nothing to do with gvim internals or scripts or plugins. It's the URL used by the xdg-open process when running gvim in server mode, so that the file is opened on a given line and column. The textedit string is embedded in the PDFs as a way of linking objects in the PDF to the source code line for them. It's got nothing to do with any plugins. It's a standard and common technique with PDF files.

Gvim works fine in servermode, and the file is opened at the right place. It very inconvenient to see this long message for no good reason - it's not an error, it's not useful information, and to have to press ENTER each time, when you are going back and forth between a music score and its note objects and the Lilypond source code hundreds of times. I can't see any reason for this behaviour from gvim, and it actually makes it pretty much unusable for this use case.

If you set up a handler for the MIME type x-scheme-handler/textedit then xdg-open textedit:///home/acb/work/test.ly:4:2:3 will open the file test.ly in the editor you have set for handling text documents on your system and go to the location. In the same way that clicking a URL in a PDF opens your browser on the page.

I'm not reporting an error, but a usability issue, bad enough to make me have to switch to alternative editor for the task. This used to work int he past where you could set cmdheight to 2, but that no longer suppresses the message ion version 9.0.

Andrew

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