Tip #306: Open a web-browser with the URL in the current line

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created:		August 10, 2002 21:10		complexity:		intermediate
author:		Kartik Agaram		as of Vim:		5.7

function! Browser () let line = getline (".") let line = matchstr (line, "http[^ ]*") exec "!netscape ".line endfunction map <Leader>w :call Browser ()<CR>

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[email protected], August 12, 2002 2:48

http[^ ]* could be replaced with \%(http\|www\.).\{-}\>

[email protected], August 12, 2002 2:53

Hrm... The above wouldn't work. Better try: \%(http://\|www\.\)[^ ,;\t]*

[email protected], August 12, 2002 11:19

I use a similar script when editing html files to view changes made to the file. if exists("loaded_mozilla") finish endif let loaded_mozilla=1 "Setup commands to run mozilla. ":Mozilla - open current file in mozilla. if !exists(':Mozilla') command Mozilla :call s:StartMozilla() endif function! s:StartMozilla() " let s:myfile = getcwd() . "/" . bufname("%") let s:myfile = expand("%:p") let s:a = "mozilla -remote 'openurl(file://"; . s:myfile . ")'" let s:r =system(s:a) "Mozilla is not running so start it." if s:r =~"No running window found." unlet s:a let s:a = "mozilla " . s:myfile . "&" let s:r =system(s:a) endif endfunction Both Netscape and Mozilla accept the remote argument which reloads an open browser with the supplied url.




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