Re: What actually are hypertext commands in vile?

[Paul Fox]

chris wrote:
 > 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?

Yes, but I think there's one more level of indirection.  The text in
the file would say "foo", and the action would be "edit-file bar".  Or
something like that.  If you have (or can find) archives of this list,
search for "hgrep", which is a recursive file grepper written in perl. 
(I've never used it.)

paul
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