I use vim in the terminal as well as gvim. My issue is that in the terminal gx opens urls without a problem but in gVim nothing happens.
Has anyone else experienced this issue and found a fix?
I'm using gvim 7.4 with patches 1-52.
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2I don't know if it is relevant but maybe you should precise which OS you're using. Also I have the same behavior on a Debian with gVim 7.4.– statoxOct 8, 2015 at 20:21
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I just tried this on a debian with XFCE desktop environment and I can reproduce the issue. Turns out, that gvim calls xdg-open URL to open the URL, but unfortunately, this did not return anything or display an error message.
However, I could fix this, by using setsid xdg-open which you need to set for the g:netrw
:let g:netrw_browsex_viewer="setsid xdg-open"
Bug opened with XFCE
answered Oct 8, 2015 at 21:06
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Thanks for this. I'm on Ubuntu with Gnome so I made a slight change: let g:netrw_browsex_viewer="setsid gnome-open"– moorejOct 8, 2015 at 21:35
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Ubuntu 18.04: When I use the setting with
setsidit pulls the html doc into the gvim window. When I uselet g:netrw_browsex_viewer= "gnome-open"just a screen flicker no browser. When I usegnome-openfrom bash works fine, so what's the problem with Ubuntu gnome?– JohnAug 25, 2018 at 17:17
I'm on OS X and running the following command in vim worked for me:
let g:netrw_browser_viewer='open'
