Re: [Vimprobable-users] percent-encoding of %s makes Web Archive shortcut fail

[Hannes S. <ha...@yl...>]

Marcos Cruz <vim...@pr...>:
> Some time ago I created this shortcut
> 
>   shortcut wa http://web.archive.org/web/*/%s
> 
> but it doesn't work because the parameter is percent-encoded and the
> Web Archive doesn't understand it.
> 
> This
> 
>   :wa http://vimprobable.org
> 
> opens
> 
>   http://web.archive.org/web/*/http%3A%2F%2Fvimprobable.org
> 
> what shows a blank page.
> 
> But this works fine:
> 
>   :open http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://vimprobable.org
> 
> Is there any way to solve this?  Maybe an alternative to "%s", for
> verbatim arguments?  I've searched the man pages and the wiki, but
> found nothing related.

Eh, that is strange behaviour on the side ot the Web Archive! I'm
afraid there is no way to solve it out of the box. I guess if we skip
soup_uri_encode it should do the trick. Could you try it?

Hannes