On Tue, Jul 07, 2015, [email protected] wrote:
> Here is a viim command
> 
>     nnoremap <silent> <F6>f :!firefox 'http://127.0.0.1/%:t' &<CR>  
> 
> What does &<CR> in the end of the command mean?

The <CR> means a carriage return is sent at the end. The & is a Unix
shell directive (I'm not sure if that's the right word) to make it
execute the command (i.e., the firefox command) in the background and
immediately return control.

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        Eric Christopherson

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