Bug#525422: vim: netrw using elinks/links does not really do what it should

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Fri Apr 24 14:02:05 UTC 2009


severity 525422 normal
thanks

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:30:50PM +0200, Tomas Janousek wrote:
> Severity: important

This is not an important bug.  It can easily be worked around by
configuring the g:netrw_http_xcmd variable.

> Since I upgraded to vim 7.2, netrw stopped working. That means, whenever i
> load a http:// url in vim, I get the file completely reformatted. I don't
> understand what's the point in using elinks to download stuff instead of
> curl/wget, which used to be used before. Or, at least, change this:
> let g:netrw_http_xcmd= "-dump >"   ==>   "-source >"

Based on the documentation for g:netrw_http_xcmd, this seems like
intentional behavior.  It specifically mentions setting
g:netrw_http_xcmd to "-source >" if you want to see the source.

I do agree that this behavior is inconsistent, though, so I'll push back
on upstream to see if they'll make the default behavior consistent among
all the supported http commands.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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