Vim Open Url

VIM Open Url v0.5.4

A VIM plugin to open urls in the default browser

This plugin aim's is to provide a cross platform API to open a url in your default web browser.

API

VIM Command :

• :OpenURL to open given url in the default web browser
• :OpenIn to open given url in the specified web browser
• :OpenSearchURL to search the search terms using registered search engine.

  The default search engine is `duckduckgo` However, `google`, `stackoverflow` and `wikipedia` are also available. You can change the default by setting `g:open_url#engines#default`.

  Search engines can be added using the API `open_url#engines#add(name, pattern)` where name is a logical name and pattern is a string that represents the search url pattern, use `%s` as a placeholder for where the search term is added.

• :OpenURLFind to find a url ahead of the cursor on the same line and open it if found. NOTE: This also moves the cursor to the url when found.

VIM Mappings :

These work in both normal mode and visual mode :

• gB: Open url under cursor in the default web browser.
• g<CR>: Search word under cursor using default search engine
• gG: Google search word under cursor in the default web browser
• gW: Wikipedia search word under cursor in the default web browser

The following plug mappings are provided which can be remapped if you prefer different mappings to those provided by default.

• (open-url-browser)
• (open-url-search)
• (open-url-search-so)
• (open-url-search-google)
• (open-url-search-wikipedia)

VIM Variables :

• g:open_url_browser_default changes default browser (Default: xdg-open)
• g:open_url_default_mappings enable/disable default mappings without remapping mappings (Default: 1)

VIM autoload function :

• open_url#open(url): Open given url in the default we