goto plugin webpage and browse plugins

[mosheavni]

Go to plugin webpage

First feature I'd like to suggest is a keymap or a function that generates a URL for a plugin, and optionally opens it with the browser command based on the OS

  use "neovim/nvim-lspconfig" -- a call to a function should return https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig and optionally `:!open ` that URL

Something like gx (netrw open shortcut)

Browse plugins

https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim This repo is one of the most updated and comprehensive list of nvim plugins, Possibly opening a floating window that lists all of those plugins in the README.md file in the repo, and a cool idea would be to preview the README.md of each plugin in a temporary buffer, or even detect if :MarkdownPreview is installed and maybe previewing the readme in the browser

Thanks!

[akinsho]

So I personally think that whilst this feature is very useful and have something like this setup locally, I think this is out of scope (IMO). There are plugins like https://github.com/axieax/urlview.nvim which already do this, so to my mind there's no reason for packer to take on this additional work/code to maintain when other people are happily already doing it 🤷🏿‍♂️

[EdenEast]

I agree with @akinsho. The maintenance cost of an increasingly hard to maintain plugin is not worth it.

You can use axieax/urlview.nvim or use what I have in my config as a starting point.

configuration

```lua local M = {} local uname = vim.loop.os_uname() M.is_mac = uname.sysname == "Darwin" M.is_linux = uname.sysname == "Linux" M.is_windows = uname.sysname == "Windows_NT" M.is_wsl = not (string.find(uname.release, "microsoft") == nil) M.open_url = function(url) local plat = edn.platform if plat.is_windows then vim.cmd([[:execute 'silent !start ]] .. url .. "'") elseif plat.is_wsl then vim.cmd([[:execute 'silent !powershell.exe start ]] .. url .. "'") elseif plat.is_mac then vim.cmd([[:execute 'silent !open ]] .. url .. "'") elseif plat.is_linux then vim.cmd([[:execute 'silent !xdg-open ]] .. url .. "'") else print("Unknown platform. Cannot open url") end end M.open_url_under_cursor = function() local cword = vim.fn.expand("") -- Remove surronding quotes if exist local url = string.gsub(cword, [[.*['"](.*)['"].*$]], "%1") -- If string starts with https:// if string.match(url, [[^https://.*]]) then return M.open_url(url) end -- If string matches `user/repo` if string.match(url, [[.*/.*]]) then return M.open_url("https://github.com/" .. url) end end return M ```

As for the browse plugins, packer is not the right place for this and is handled better.

• neovimcraft
• awesome-neovim

[mosheavni]

Thanks.. managed to write something myself. thank you @EdenEast I used your code :)