runtime(openPlugin): Add URLOpen to not expand special chars
Commit:
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/a2dd40c057f6b53295f38adfcc69907620200acc
Author: Christian Brabandt <c...@256bit.org>
Date: Wed Jun 4 21:59:01 2025 +0200
runtime(openPlugin): Add URLOpen to not expand special chars
closes: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/17424
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <c...@256bit.org>
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
index 170d2d037..492a4444a 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-*eval.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2025 Apr 02
+*eval.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2025 Jun 04
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -5149,6 +5149,10 @@ executable. It takes the following arguments:
filetype string
executable string
+ *package-open*
+The |:Open| and |:Launch| command are provided by the included plugin
+$VIMRUNTIME/plugin/openPlugin.vim
+
*dist#vim9#Open()* *:Open* *:URLOpen*
*g:Openprg* *gx*
dist#vim9#Open(file: string) ~
@@ -5159,6 +5163,9 @@ string specified in the variable is used instead.
The |:Open| user command uses file completion for its argument.
+The |:URLOpen| user command works the same but does not perform file
+completion and therefore does not expand special characters |cmdline-special|.
+
This function is by default called using the gx mapping. In visual mode
tries to open the visually selected text.
@@ -5176,11 +5183,8 @@ NOTE: Escaping of the path is automatically applied.
Usage: >vim
:call dist#vim9#Open(<path>)
:Open <path>
+ :URLOpen <path>
<
- *package-open*
-The |:Open| and |:Launch| command are provided by the included plugin
-$VIMRUNTIME/plugin/openPlugin.vim
-
*dist#vim9#Launch()* *:Launch*
dist#vim9#Launch(file: string) ~
diff --git a/runtime/plugin/openPlugin.vim b/runtime/plugin/openPlugin.vim
index 09f5ad2c4..8e0ae4b99 100644
--- a/runtime/plugin/openPlugin.vim
+++ b/runtime/plugin/openPlugin.vim
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ command -complete=shellcmd -nargs=1 Launch
vim9.Launch(trim(<q-args>))
# technically, -nargs=1 is correct, but this throws E480: No match
# when the argument contains a wildchar on Windows
command -complete=file -nargs=* Open vim9.Open(trim(<q-args>))
+# Use URLOpen when you don't want completion to happen
+# (or because you want to avoid cmdline-special)
+command -nargs=1 URLOpen vim9.Open(trim(<q-args>))
const no_gx = get(g:, "nogx", get(g:, "netrw_nogx", false))
if !no_gx
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