chris wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 10:20:14AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 02:01:41PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > While, just now, mucking about in my .vilerc I saw the hypertext macro > > > that has been there for ages (copied from help):- > > > > > > 22 store-macro > > > ~force execute-hypertext-command > > > ~if ¬ $status > > > ~force forward-character-to-eol > > > ~endif > > > ~endm > > > bind-key execute-macro-22 ' ' > > > > > > So what does vile understand/see as a hypertext link? I tried a few > > > possibles (http://, file://) but nothing actually appeared to do > > > anything. Only file:// would seem to make any sense as a file to go > > > to and edit. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what it's supposed to do > > > (very likely!). > > > > It's only used for vile's commands (no web browser). > > > > "execute-hypertext-command" ^X-z > > ( run the hypertext command attached to the region under the cursor ) > > > As in execute a command like 'edit-file' that's in the text of a file?
Yes, but I think there's one more level of indirection. The text in the file would say "foo", and the action would be "edit-file bar". Or something like that. If you have (or can find) archives of this list, search for "hgrep", which is a recursive file grepper written in perl. (I've never used it.) paul =---------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma)