created by

Peter Odding

script type

utility

description

This plug-in knows how to open files, directories, URLs and e-mail addresses from inside Vim using the associated programs. It should work on Windows, Mac OS X and most Linux installations. For more information about the plug-in please refer to its homepage or the project page on GitHub: • http://peterodding.com/code/vim/open-associated-programs/ • http://github.com/xolox/vim-open-associated-programs If you have questions, bug reports, suggestions, etc. the author can be contacted at peter@peterodding.com. If you like this plug-in please vote for it below!

install details

Unzip the most recent ZIP archive file (see below) inside your Vim profile directory (usually this is "~/.vim" on UNIX and "%USERPROFILE%\vimfiles" on Windows), restart Vim and execute the command ":helptags ~/.vim/doc" (use ":helptags ~\vimfiles\doc" instead on Windows). Note that on Windows a command prompt window pops up when either of the functions is called. If this bothers you then you can install my shell.vim plug-in (see vimscript #3123) which includes a DLL that works around this issue. Once you’ve installed both plug-ins it should work out of the box!

Click on the package to download.

package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
open-associated-programs.zip	1.2.1	2010-12-04	7.0	Peter Odding	Bug fix for E121 in handle_error(): https://github.com/xolox/vim-open-associated-programs/commit/87dd8d408b40710afbbc
open-associated-programs.zip	1.2	2010-09-18	7.0	Peter Odding	Renamed plug-in from ‘Open external location’ to ‘Open associated programs’: http://github.com/xolox/vim-open-associated-programs/commit/71111c7e19ae02368a5f
open-external-location.zip	1.1	2010-09-17	7.0	Peter Odding	Fixed reference to vim.org, added GLVS header: http://github.com/xolox/vim-open-external-location/commit/c706b115c4
open-external-location.zip	1.0	2010-09-17	7.0	Peter Odding	Initial upload

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