Hi, another way to use the socket interface of vimb is by means of netcat.
Granted, the vanilla version of netcat does not allow for Unix domain sockets, but the so-called openbsd variant (can also run on other Unix systems) does. So in order to access vimb remotely this way, be sure that the executable `netcat' points to that version instead of vanilla nc. If $SOCKET holds the path of a vimb socket created via vimb -s, netcat -U $SOCKET connects with the corresponding instance of vimb and allows to execute normal commands, just as socat does. :open my.wonderful.site.org<CR> will thus connect you with said (hypothetical) webpage. Alas, there is no nicely formatted prompt, and any output returned from vimb's socket will clutter your terminal, so you can redirect it ot a logfile or /dev/null, depending on whether you need it, using the standard output indirection syntax. greetings, Klaus Schilling ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ vimb-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vimb-users
