Opening files and links
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g f opens what is under the cursor, or exactly what is selected.
| Target | Opens |
|---|---|
https://…, http://…, www.… | The default browser. www. addresses use HTTPS. |
| A file path | The file in the editor. Relative paths are matched beside the active file or explorer and at the project root. Several matches open a picker. |
| A Markdown link or image label | Its destination, including paths in angle brackets, in the source and in rendered ? pages |
A link to #heading or file.md#heading | That heading |
Inferring the target with a bare caret:
- Surrounding Markdown wrappers and trailing prose punctuation are left out. A path at the end of a sentence ignores trailing punctuation when the literal name does not exist.
- An inferred target stays within one buffer line.
- An explicit selection is used exactly.
In terminal review (g f in NORMAL/review mode):
- It reads the frozen review text, and resolves relative paths against the terminal’s latest validated directory (or its launch directory) and the project root.
- Opening a file leaves the terminal process running. Opening a link keeps the terminal view in place.
- A bare caret anywhere on a web link follows the whole URL across rows joined by the terminal’s automatic wrapping.
- An explicit newline ends a link, unless a program such as Codex or Claude Code broke the link inside indented text. The link then continues onto the next row when that row is indented to the same text column and the link’s row reaches the right edge its block wraps at. A link ending before that edge, or a row starting at the left edge, is never joined.
- Resizing the live terminal clears wrap information. An already captured review keeps its original links.
Opening by command: :open <path> (aliases :e, :edit) opens a file or
directory in the active pane; see Commands
for path completion.