Re: [Vimprobable-users] [PATCH 0/3] add external file handlers

[Alexander F. <ale...@go...>]

Hello,

since it appears that there is not a uniform settlement upon how to do
this I just want to report what I'd like to see. I don't want to imply
that this is how I think it should be done since there's a lot of
personal preference involved as pointed out by others.

I'd rather see mailcap to be used than xdg-open from the freedesktop project.

I consider opening a file and downloading a file to be distinct
operations. Since I'd like to see a file which is downloaded only to
be opened to be downloaded in a temporary place instead of the regular
download folder.

It might be nice to have options to *download* a file, *open* a file
and *download and open* a file. However, I would not want to see a
dialog showing up for this. Maybe this can be done by different
hinting modes but maybe this might be overkill to have three different
key combinations for this.

Feel free to disagree with any point mentioned here. Just wanted to
share my expectations. However, this seems to be the way most popular
browsers handle this, including Firefox's vimperator plugin if I am
not mistaken.

Regards
Alexander Foremny