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phimuemue
phimuemue

Reputation: 36071

vim: Add clickable label

I know that in emacs it is possible to insert some kind of "clickable text". I.e. you can insert a text, that, when the user presses enter on it, opens another file.

Is there something like this for vim?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 2485

Answers (3)

evnu
evnu

Reputation: 6690

Another simple solution is to write the filename and use gf to go to the file, Ctrl+w,f to open the file in a split window or Ctrl+w,f,g to open it in a tab. Note that the file must already exist. See this vim wikia entry for some other tips.

Upvotes: 1

Prince Goulash
Prince Goulash

Reputation: 15735

For simple ad hoc cases you could write a function to which opens a certain file based on the word under the cursor. You could then map this function to the double-click event.

For example:

function! CustomLoad()
    let word = expand("<cword>")
    let path = "/path/to/file/to/be/opened"
    if ( word == "special_keyword" && filereadable(path) )
        sil exe "split " . path
    endif
endfunction

And map it using:

nnoremap <2-LeftMouse> :call CustomLoad()<CR>

Thus double-clicking (in normal mode) on the word special_keyword will open the file /path/to/file/to/be/opened if it is readable. You could add multiple cases for different keywords, or do some text-processing of the keyword to generate the filename if required. (Note that the filereadable condition is not necessary, but probably a good idea.)

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 4

mike3996
mike3996

Reputation: 17537

It is possible, but is filetype-specific. A best example will be vim's own help system that is nothing fancier than an unmodifiable buffer with specific mappings.

See vimwiki and vimorgmode for examples to have such links.

Upvotes: 4

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