Question

I wanted to open a URL with xdg-open when the cursor was staying on some string that points to a valid folder
By pressing some key , it will launch xdg-open the_valid_url for example.

Is that possible ?

And i hope it works even a space resides in the local url.

Thanks !

Answer 1

Try with next mapping:

:noremap ,o :!xdg-open <cfile><CR>

And now, inside vim put cursor over your string and press ,o in normal mode. In my computer (linux) uses dolphin to open local folders and konqueror to open urls.

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EDIT:

To open files with spaces, add the space character to option isfname (32 is the decimal number of the space character):

:set isfname+=32

and use this different map:

:noremap ,o :execute ":!xdg-open " . shellescape( '<cfile>' )<CR>