Opening links from gvim on linux

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Opening links from gvim on linux

Forum: Viki

Creator: Darren Kessner

Created: 2013-10-06

Updated: 2013-10-16

Darren Kessner - 2013-10-06

Hi Tom,

I'm trying to follow links (\vf) from gvim on a Linux (Ubuntu/XFCE) system. \vf works from terminal vim, but not currently from gvim.

g:vikiOpenFileWith_ANY shows the command with xdg-open. I think the issue has to do with needing to run the shell command in the background using '&'. For example, from gvim, the following command will open the browser:
:!xdg-open http://google.com &
But this won't work without the trailing '&'.

However, I don't know vimscript well enough to figure out how to make the change correctly to your plugin.

Any help would be appreciated!

Darren

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- Tom Link - 2013-10-16
  
  :!xdg-open http://google.com &
  But this won't work without the trailing '&'.
  
  It used to work with ubuntu 10.04. Anyway, I added "&" in the version at
  github. It shouldn't do any harm, I hope.
  
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