On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I've looked around the help and archives, but I can't find anything about
>> this problem:
>>
>> How do I set netrw so that when I do :e http://someurl.html, vim
>> displays it as raw HTML code rather than formatting it like a browser?
>>
>
> It sounds like your g:netrw_http_cmd or g:netrw_http_xcmd is misconfigured
> or pointing to something undesirable.  Netrw shouldn't do what you're
> describing by default.  If you have `curl` or `wget` available, I'd add:
>
> let g:netrw_http_cmd = 'curl'
>
> or:
>
> let g:netrw_http_cmd = 'wget'
>
> to your .vimrc.  I've had problems in the past trying to get raw HTML out
> of certain versions of `links`/`elinks`.  (Both of them seem like bad
> default choices for fetching raw HTML, considering there are at least three
> different forks of `links`/`elinks`, each of which behaves differently.)
>

Yes, that is the problem.  However, it only worked when I set
g:netrw_http_cmd = 'curl' rather than 'curl -o' as it says in the help.
Also, 'wget -q -O' or even just 'wget ' didn't work.  All this is on a
Linux machine at home.  At work, I'm running vim on Windows and
g:netrw_http_cmd is automatically set to 'curl -o' and works fine.  What's
the difference?

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