On Nov 2, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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.
Also in the help under :help double-click
"Exception: In a Help window a double click jumps to help for the word that is
clicked on."
This is a president for a keyword URL clicking action, although with a double
click.
In response for look and feel of a Macintosh application there are certain
features expected. Agreeably in core vim this would be a non feature, but in
the MacVim GUI we already have contextual menu, apple specific key bindings and
other integrations into the OSX Eco system. I feel that the addition of the
OSX data detector features may be advantageous. it seems the design-not
feelings would apply to gvim, not MacVim.
For a more supported model currently; you can use a double click and extend it.
An idea could be to call the osx open utility with the contents of the
selection of the word if it meets the following requirements
You can start with this....
:map <2-LeftMouse> :exe "! open ". expand("<cWORD>")<CR>
Note anything you double click will be passed to open..... not exactly what
you wanted, but you could pass it to a vim script function that verified that
it was a proper url then open it.
>From a google search, I found this stack overflow article.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7686115/vim-add-clickable-label
The second entry looks like a good model to follow. bonus points for making
the double click fall through and select the <cword>, when it is not a valid
URL.
Happy hacking, keep us moving forward!
Steve
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