Open current file in web browser in Vim

Question

I\'d like to be able to send the HTML file I\'m currently editing in vim to my web browser, Chrome. I\'m running Linux.

This gets me very close:

Answer 1

You can exec chrome silently:

nmap  w :exec 'silent !google-chrome % &'

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:exe[cute] {expr1} .. Executes the string that results from the evaluation of {expr1} as an Ex command.