On Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 10:48:08 AM UTC+2, Manfred Lotz wrote: > > Hi all, > I have Fedora 31 and Fedora 32. Happens on both systems. > > I want to open an URL in my browser and type `gx` when the cursor is > over an URL in vim resp. gvim > > > Doing this for example in an markdown document it works fine for vim but > nothing happens when doing the same in gvim. > > When debugging (i.e. starting vim resp. gvim with `-V9vim.log`) I see: > > line 2: sourcing "/usr/share/vim/vim82/autoload/netrw.vim" > finished sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim82/autoload/netrw.vim > continuing in <SNR>67_VersionAwareNetrwBrowseX > :!setsid xdg-open 'https://realpython.com/python-data-types/'>/dev/null > 2>&1 > > Calling shell to execute: "setsid xdg-open > 'https://realpython.com/python-data-types/'>/dev/null 2>&1" > > > Any idea how to find out why gvim behaves differently? > > > -- > Manfred >
A solution (or workaround?) to (the root cause of) this issue has been posted in this group a few weeks back in this discussion: "netrw#BrowseX fails when invoked from gvim on Ubuntu" https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/vim_use/cTo_VUtA250/sEgu2wOHAwAJ The trick is to use: :!xdg-open http://www.vim.org & instead of: :!xdg-open http://www.vim.org Note the ampersand at the end of the first command. See the original discussion for more details. I didn't look into the netrw plugin but I suppose there is a way to configure it so that the gx command launches xdg-open via a background job (the ampersand form). Tom -- -- 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/cd194c31-b64f-426f-bf64-5238cca6049e%40googlegroups.com.
