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Don't forget about its twin gx. For example on MacOS gx uses the open command to open a file in the default application. Really helpful when you want to open up a website quickly in your browser or you have the url to an image in a markdown file and want to see it. Helpful trick for relativ paths: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/7xs8x3/opening_local_r...


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