Re: What actually are hypertext commands in vile?

[Chris Green]

On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 10:20:14AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 02:01:41PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > While, just now, mucking about in my .vilerc I saw the hypertext macro
> > that has been there for ages (copied from help):-
> > 
> >     22 store-macro
> >         ~force execute-hypertext-command
> >         ~if &not $status
> >             ~force forward-character-to-eol
> >         ~endif
> >     ~endm
> >     bind-key execute-macro-22 ' '
> > 
> > So what does vile understand/see as a hypertext link?  I tried a few
> > possibles (http://, file://) but nothing actually appeared to do
> > anything.  Only file:// would seem to make any sense as a file to go
> > to and edit.  Maybe I'm misunderstanding what it's supposed to do
> > (very likely!).
> 
> It's only used for vile's commands (no web browser).
> 
> "execute-hypertext-command"   ^X-z
>   ( run the hypertext command attached to the region under the cursor )
> 
As in execute a command like 'edit-file' that's in the text of a file?

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Chris Green