Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vim
Running `vim http://...` with a .vimrc to enable netrw works very differently depending on whether or not you have elinks or links installed. As you can see from the netrw code below, as soon as you have either of the text browsers installed, netrw will invoke them to do a dump of html --> txt and put that into your vim buffer. However, this takes no account of the Content-Type header of the remote server so is less than ideal. $ cat .vimrc set nocp " 'compatible' is not set filetype plugin on " plugins are enabled $ cat /usr/share/vim/vim72/autoload/netrw.vim ... if !exists("g:netrw_http_cmd") if executable("elinks") let g:netrw_http_cmd = "elinks" let g:netrw_http_xcmd= "-dump >" elseif executable("links") let g:netrw_http_cmd = "links" let g:netrw_http_xcmd= "-dump >" elseif executable("curl") let g:netrw_http_cmd = "curl -o" elseif executable("wget") let g:netrw_http_cmd = "wget -q -O" elseif executable("fetch") let g:netrw_http_cmd = "fetch -o" else let g:netrw_http_cmd = "" endif endif ... Ideally, if I know a remote plain/text file is available at URL http://paste.ubuntu.com/155255/plain/ then I want to do `vim http://paste.ubuntu.com/155255/plain/` and receive that in my buffer for viewing/editing. $ curl -v http://paste.ubuntu.com/155255/plain/ 2>&1 | grep Content-Type < Content-Type: text/plain However, if the remote Content-Type is text/html then I may want elinks -dump to proceed as normal. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 Package: vim None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/vim.list] ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SourcePackage: vim Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686 UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package ** Affects: vim (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- vim http://... support via netrw doesn't inspect Content-Type header https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364548 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
