On Saturday, November 2, 2013 3:42:14 PM UTC+1, Albert Zeyer wrote:
> On Saturday, November 2, 2013 11:52:19 AM UTC+1, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> > On Friday, November 1, 2013 9:29:03 PM UTC+1, Albert Zeyer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I want to be able to click on URLs I see in MacVim so that it opens the
> > > URL with the responsible application (e.g. a http link with my default
> > > browser). How can I do that? Is that possible?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Albert
> >
> > A valid URL cannot include spaces (they must be replaced by %20), so if it
> > is itself between spaces, "+yiW (with the cursor anywhere on it) will yank
> > it to the clipboard. Similarly "+yi< or "+yi> if it is between <>, etc.,
> > see ":help object-motions". Then you can paste it into your favourite
> > browser's URL bar.
> >
> > This question (or at least this answer) applies to vim (compiled with
> > +clipboard, of course) on any platform, not just on the Mac, so it should
> > have been asked on the vim_use group.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tony.
> > --
> > A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
> > "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
> > -- Mahatma Gandhi
>
> Thanks for the answer.
>
> But I really want to click on it with my mouse cursor. Also, it should not be
> pasted to the clipboard; I want it to open the responsible application right
> away automatically. As if you click a link in any other application.
>
> This is MacVim specific, I think.
>
> Best regards,
> Albert
If Sylvain's answer (below) is not good enough for you, then remember that Vim
is keyboard-oriented: it was first released to the public 22 years ago, with a
tradition that already then went back 15 years. At those times, a mouse was
something rare or even unheard of in a computer room, except maybe as a tiny
grey mammal that should never have been allowed to get in. So everything that
Vim can do, it can do with the keyboard, and even with a keyboard lacking arrow
keys and numeric keypad; if these are present, it can use them; it can also use
the mouse, but not to do anything.
You can set up mappings for the mouse by using the <> names laid out under
:help mouse-overview and :help double-click, but only to do things that Vim can
already do by other means. For instance you could set up
:map <LeftMouse> yiW
to click anywhere and copy that Word (anything between spaces) to the
"nameless" register but that wouldn't invoke the OS-defined helper application
for it, and in addition it would obscure the (IMHO more useful) use of a left
click to position the cursor.
Other than that, I cannot help you here. I just wonder why you are dead set on
clicking to invoke any possible responsible program for whatever would happen
to be under the mouse pointer: see among others the last item under :help
design-not. With Vim, it often happens that best results are obtained by
keeping an open mind, and accepting solutions that achieve the desired
(long-term) result, or something close enough to it, by ways totally different
from one had in mind at the outset.
Best regards,
Tony.
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