Hi Gary,
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>
Thanks, I didn't realize that -u NONE prevents plug-ins in $VIMRUNTIME from loading. This explains the "Illegal file name" message in my first e-mail. However I wasn't able to load the netrw plug-in using the commands you gave above, apparently because Vim starts in compatible mode. Unfortunately given the command line below Vim still starts with the same gibberish I described in my first e-mail:
vim -u NONE -U NONE -N -c 'let &rtp = $VIMRUNTIME | runtime! plugin/**/*.vim | edit http://www.vim.org/'
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