Open Vitruvia opened 7 years ago
We still need to add Firefox as a supported browser. If you are on linux, xdotool
should be refreshing the tab instead of creating a new one. You can try manually creating the html file
then calling xdotool to see if its a system problem.
Calling xdotool by hand using the way you pointed doesn't cause anything to happen (I was inside the folder with the markdown-preview.html.
I have installed chrome and I still get a new tab when using
The issue is that xdotool does not find the browser window that already displays the html file because it searches for the wrong title.
I implemented a workaround by setting the html title when creating the html and make xdotool explicitely search for it when updating/displaying the html. Check out the fork here. I can submit a PR if it works for you.
Remember to set vim_markdown_preview_browser='firefox'
in your vimrc.
HTH :)!
@pylipp a PR for firefox would be great!
@pylipp How can I test your version of the plugin using Vundle? I copied Plugin 'https://github.com/pylipp/vim-markdown-preview/tree/bugfix/firefox'
into my plugin section at .vimrc but it won't install.
@Vitruvia Maybe this helps? I'm using vim-plug myself for plugin management.
@pylipp Thanks! Unfortunately, following the steps you pointed out didn't fix the issue for me.
Mmh a hack I can think of is to leave your vimrc untouched and go to the plugin directory instead (something like ~/.vim/bundle/vim-markdown-preview
). There you add my fork as a new remote and checkout the firefox branch:
git remote add pylipp https://github.com/pylipp/vim-markdown-preview
git checkout -b bugfix/firefox pylipp/bugfix/firefox
Then you should be on the correct branch. However, this is probably going to be overwritten when you update the original plugin from within vim.
Dear friends,
Problem Solved, I missed the following setting:
let vim_markdown_preview_github=1
Many thanks!
Dear friends,
Although I've installed
the plug-in, yet, doesn't work. I am a bit frustrated. Could you be kind to lend me a hand? Any tip are highly appreciated.
➜ vim-markdown-preview git:(master) ✗ ls plugin README.md ➜ vim-markdown-preview git:(master) ✗ ls plugin applescript vim-markdown-preview.vim vim-markdown-preview.vim.bak ➜ vim-markdown-preview git:(master) ✗ xdotool --version xdotool version 3.+20171213.1 ➜ vim-markdown-preview git:(master) ✗ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser [sudo] password for lh: There is only one alternative in link group x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser): /usr/bin/firefox Nothing to configure. ➜ vim-markdown-preview git:(master) ✗ sudo update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser There is only one alternative in link group gnome-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser): /usr/bin/firefox Nothing to configure. ➜ vim-markdown-preview git:(master) ✗ pwd /home/lh/.vim/bundle/vim-markdown-preview ➜ vim-markdown-preview git:(master) ✗ lsb_release -r Release: 14.04
@pylipp I also did not manage to use firefox with your modifications. In my init.vim I have
Plug 'pylipp/vim-markdown-preview', { 'branch': 'bugfix/firefox' }
let g:vim_markdown_preview_perl = 1
let g:vim_markdown_preview_browser = 'firefox'
Can you specify the system you are running?
Is the plugin installed correctly (can you check the installation folder and run git remote -v
)?
Is see
installed on your system and configured correctly (to use firefox as default browser - side note: this kinda makes the vim_markdown_preview_browser setting redundant, still have to change that on my branch)?
Is xdotool
installed?
Does it work with a different browser?
Is it that your mapping does not work? What happens if you run :call Vim_Markdown_Preview()
in an open markdown file?
Are you using NeoVim? I never tested the plugin or the firefox-branch there. Maybe that's an issue.
@pylipp One thing before I will answer. To which project exactly do you refer by see
? Are we talking about the Python module or what? Google is not so helpful here.
see
is a program provided by the mime-support
package.
Can you manually open the html file generated by vim-markdown-preview with see /tmp/vim-markdown-preview.html
?
I think this also requires a ~/.mailcap
file with the contents like
text/html; /usr/bin/firefox %s; description=HTML Text; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.html
And maybe setting the environment variable $BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox
. Sorry for not being specific here, I think I once added a bunch of stuff to my system config and at some point it worked and has been ever since ;)... HTH!
@pylipp Well, but this is a Debian related package, and as I see it is an alias on mailcap
. Cannot you simply drop see
in favor of something standard like xdg-open
? As I see Fedora still provides mailcap
but right now it internally calls xdg-open
, while openSUSE which I use does not provide anymore mailcap.
I set thevim-markdown-preview
option to use xdg-open
but then it does not really work as it should i.e., a new tab is open each time I want to refresh a markdown file preview.
Regarding the new tab being opened: Did the browser tab displaying the preview lose focus between two calls to Vim_Markdown_Preview()
? xdotool is then unable to find the browser tab and asks the browser to open the preview html again, resulting in a new tab.
If you don't want to use xdg-open or mailcap, you could hardcode the browser executable in the source code.
I was able to get tabs refreshing on Ubuntu 16 with firefox with the following steps:
sudo apt install markdown xdotool
$ sleep 3; xdotool getwindowfocus getwindowname
Output:
Opens new tab when called on Ubuntu 16 with firefox · Issue #68 · JamshedVesuna/vim-markdown-preview - Mozilla Firefox
.vimrc
let vim_markdown_preview_browser='Mozilla Firefox'
@DmitrySandalov Thanks for investigating :) What version of firefox are you using? I think that makes a difference in how Firefox builds the tab title.
@pylipp
dpkg -s
: 60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1@DmitrySandalov let vim_markdown_preview_browser='Mozilla Firefox'
is the key. (on master, with a recent version of firefox). This also makes #70 unnecessary. Though I can remember that back at that time my firefox was not appending 'Mozilla Firefox' to the browser tab title. Anyways I mostly use qutebrowser these days^^
I have firefox as the standard browser (it is what came installed in the distro), and whenever I do a new tab opens. How can I fix this?