On 2010-07-27, Peter Odding wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm used to being able to do stuff like:
>
> :edit http://www.vim.org/
>
> Because of the netrw plug-in. However when I execute the above command
> in Vim 7.3c I get a bunch of gibberish (binary data), which is
> apparently gzip-encoded data:
>
> :write !file -
> /dev/stdin: gzip compressed data, from Unix
>
> The strangest thing is that www.vim.org itself doesn't seem to use gzip
> compression, so somehow the gzip compression happens on my machine?!
>
> $ curl -s http://www.vim.org/ | file -
> /dev/stdin: HTML document text
>
> I tried upgrading to the latest version of the netrw plug-in* but now
> it's broken in a different way...:
>
> $ vim -u NONE -U NONE -c ':edit http://www.vim.org/'
> "http://www.vim.org/"; Illegal file name
The netrw plugin won't be loaded if you start vim with "-u NONE".
Here's what I did to test the default netrw plugin without loading
my own plugins.
$ vim -u NONE
:let &rtp=$VIMRUNTIME
:runtime! plugin/**/*.vim
:edit http://www.vim.org/
works fine for me. I get an HTML file that includes this line:
<title>welcome home : vim online</title>
That ":runtime" command is from
:help load-plugins
> Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks in advance :-)
Not off-hand, but I hope that will give you a start in finding the
problem.
Regards,
Gary
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