How to put a text object under the cursor into an cmdline-mode command?

Question

I'm using neovim v0.8.0 (nightly build) on Arch Linux.

When in my plugins.lua where I have all my nvim plugins listed, I want to be able to use gX to open user/repo in my browser as https://github.com/user/repo.

Since the plugins are not listed as full URLs, I can't use the normal gx. I know they're always wrapped in single quotes so I can put them in the clip board with "+yi'. However, I don't know a way to put the copied text in an cmdline-mode command after that. I've tried "+yi':!$BROWSER https://github.com/<C-S-v> ($BROWSER is the browser declared in my .profile) but that doesn't put :!$BROWSER https://github.com/user/repo in the command to be executed with <CR>. Instead, nothing happens with I press the bound gX and only puts !$BROWSER https://github.com/ (plus the next key pressed) in the command area when I press another key after gX.

How can I put the text object under the cursor into an cmdline-mode command?

Answer 1

It is not necessary to yank your path first. You can use <C-r><C-f> instead:

CTRL-R CTRL-F               *c_CTRL-R_CTRL-F* *c_<C-R>_<C-F>*
    CTRL-F  the Filename under the cursor

Answer 2

As mentioned in the comments, you can put the contents with <C-r>{register}. Thus, the RHS of the mapping would be

"+yi':!$BROWSER https://github.com/<C-r>+<CR>