On 12 December 2014, Joydeep Chakrabarty <chalao.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks David, > It finally worked. I used - > > nmap <F2> :w<CR>:exec "!firefox " . substitute(expand('%:p'),"\/home\/ > username\/public_html","http\:\/\/localhost","")<CR> > > 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.
Since you're on Linux: replace firefox above with a script that looks like this: #! /bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin/usr/bin firefox -newtab "$@" || firefox "$@" & /lcd -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.