Re: What actually are hypertext commands in vile?

[Chris Green]

On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 01:24:39PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> 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.)
> 
Yes, I found a reference to hgrep when I did a web search just now.
Maybe I'll look a bit harder, it's only curiosity though.

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Chris Green