On Tue, March 22, 2011 7:31 am, howard Schwartz wrote: >> 'www.google.com' is not an html string, it's a host name. It's likely >> been interpreted as a URL when you tried that command because things >> like '%20' are escape sequence for encoding special characters in a URL, >> not terminal instructions. > > To me it is a string, that happens to describe a URL. I like the mapping, > because, in principle, it should also execute a ``string'' like > [email protected] by launching my default email client. That is, I > want > vim to just pass the string to the shell command, without interpretation, > and > let the shell interpret the string and launch an appropriate application. > > What happens when I execute: > > :silent !start rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler <cWORD> <CR> ^M
Let's ask differently. What is the reason for you, to include the ' <CR> ^M' part? Shouldn't hat be simply :silent !start rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler <cWORD> regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
