On 21-Aug-2011 16:17, Hari G wrote: > On Aug 21, 12:11 am, Ingo Karkat <sw...@ingo-karkat.de> wrote: >> Why doesn't the file:// support of the netrw plugin suffice? >> > Netrw doesn't work for me for URLs like "file:///d:/foo.txt" or > "file://localhost/d:/foo.txt", (on Windows) probably because of an > extra slash in the final URL.
Yeah, I also found out that netrw (v142) only works for file://d:/foo.txt, but not for file:///d:/foo.txt, even though the Windows Shell API (cp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:URL) and e.g. Firefox seem to prefer the latter one. Still, wouldn't it be preferable to fix / enhance the netrw plugin instead of adding this isolated part of netrw functionality to the Vim core?! (CC'ing the netrw maintainer for this.) Bram's reply points in this direction, too. -- regards, ingo -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
