Thanks everybody for your answers. In fact, without doing anything, gx works on my laptop!
On mar., 2019-07-09 at 08:21 -0700, Pete Doherty wrote: > On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 11:09:16 AM UTC-4, Enno wrote: > > Le mardi 9 juillet 2019 10:32:52 UTC-3, Tony Mechelynck a écrit : > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 2:56 PM Mathieu Roux wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Is it possible to follow a link with vim? for exemple, if my > > > > cursor is > > > > on https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim > > > > i want to use my browser to go to this website. > > > > > > > > By the same way, i can open a file with "gf" if my cursor is on > > > > the > > > > file's name. But i don't know how to follow a link. > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Mathieu > > > > > > I don't know if it is possible, but I know where to find the > > > answer: > > > > > > :help netrw > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Tony. > > > > Thus, if elinks is installed, then typing `gf` will open the link > > as text in Vim. > > Typing `gx` will open it with the program attached to links in the > > OS. On Linux, if one does not use Gnome or KDE desktop environment, > > then adding > > > > let g:netrw_browsex_viewer = "xdg-open" > > > > to the vimrc seems necessary. > > Both `gf` and `gx` worked for me as described using Debian/i3 > (without having to set `g:netrw_browsex_viewer`). > > Thanks for sharing this simple solution, Enno! > > PRD > > -- -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/b3373669e398abf6b320150eb4ed48a9da3a1fce.camel%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
