On Friday, April 1, 2016 at 8:44:50 PM UTC+13, Peter King wrote: > I usually use nvim at the console and would like to set gx to open a URL > under the cursor with /usr/bin/links... All that happens, though, is that > the console screen blinks while the lookup silently fails.
Netrw is redirecting standard input and output to /dev/null, to avoid browser messages; this directly clobbers links' IO. It's running, you just can't see it or type anything into it. As a workaround, create a script called, say, vimlinks, in your $PATH with the following: #!/bin/bash links </dev/tty >/dev/tty 2>/dev/tty "$@" chmod +x it: chmod +x vimlinks then in vim use let netrw_browsex_viewer = "vimlinks" Regards, John Little -- -- 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.