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On December 12, 2014 5:04:24 PM EAT, Joydeep Chakrabarty
<chalao.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:24:42 -0500, David Fishburn wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Joydeep Chakrabarty
>> <chalao.a...@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thanks for your interesting tips. I forgot to mention I am working
>on
>>> Linux Mint 64-bit laptop. So I just changed "iexplorer.exe" to
>firefox.
>>> But when I used the tip - "nnoremap <silent> <C-F5> :if
>expand('%:p:h')
>>> != ""<CR>:! firefox %:p<CR>:endif<CR><CR>", it sent "firefox
>>> /home/username/public_html/current_directory/program1.php" and it
>>> didn't work. As I said in my earlier post I am using Php. So I have
>to
>>> sent "http://localhost/current_directory/program1.php"; to firefox.
>>> I could use ":!firefox http://localhost/current_directory/%";. But in
>>> that case I have to write current_directory every time.
>>> I need a general way to get the path from after localhost(=
>>> ~/public_html) to filename.php ( = %).
>>>
>>>
>> You just have to use an extra substitution command (and probably an
>> execute statement).
>>
>> I think this should work for you.
>>
>> nnoremap <silent> <C-F5> :if expand('%:p:h') != ""<CR>:exec ":!
>firefox
>> "
>> . substitute(expand('%:p'), '\/home\/username\/public_html', '
>> http://localhost', '')<CR>:endif<CR>
>>
>> You can replace :exec with :echomsg and see what will happen.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> --
>
>Thanks David,
>It finally worked. I used -
>
>nmap <F2> :w<CR>:exec "!firefox " . substitute(expand('%:p'),"\/home\/
>username\/public_html","http\:\/\/localhost","")<CR>
You forgot shellescape(, 1). I suggest you use it even if you do not plan to
have anything that needs to be escaped there.
>Thanks again.
>BTW, is there any way I can run this in background? Everytime I press
>F2,
>firefox opens and I cannot use vim until I close firefox. So I need to
>call this in background and I can edit in vim. Next time I press F2,
>another tab in firefox will be opened.
Use screen, tmux, dtach or shell own backgrounding capabilities (&) (you may
need nohup). Check out 'man bash', section SHELL GRAMMAR/Lists for the latter,
'man screen/tmux/...' for the former.
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