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Basj
Basj

Reputation: 46423

Click on a filename to open in a new tab with Sublime

Often in my personal readme.txt files / log files, I have some references to other .txt files. It can be relative path (..\notes\blah.txt) or absolute path (like on the screenshot below).

Is it possible, for a .txt file, to have this behaviour in Sublime: double-click on a filename to open it in a new tab?

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 984

Answers (1)

Basj
Basj

Reputation: 46423

Note: Clickable URLs plugin is not really usable for me, because it parses the whole file, highlights the URLs (thanks to a nice regex), and then listens to CTRL+ALT+ENTER: if more than ~ 500 highlighted items, Sublime Text becomes highly unresponsive.

Here is a working solution.

  1. First put this file lllaunch.py in your user packages (e.g. C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages\User\):

    import sublime, sublime_plugin
import subprocess
import webbrowser
import re

BROWSER = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe'
EDITOR = 'C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\sublime_text.exe'

class LllaunchCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit):
        for region in self.view.sel():
            s = self.view.substr(self.view.line(region))
            i = region.begin() - self.view.line(region).begin()

            start = 0
            end = -1
            for j, c in enumerate(s):
                if c == ' ':
                    if j < i:
                        start = j
                    else:
                        end = j
                        break
            word = s[start:end].strip() if end != -1 else s[start:].strip()
            isurl = bool(re.match("\\bhttps?://[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%?=~_()|!:,.;']*[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%=~_(|]", word))
            if isurl:
                webbrowser.register('mybrowser', None, webbrowser.GenericBrowser(BROWSER))
                webbrowser.get('mybrowser').open(word)
            else:
                s = '"' + s.split('"')[s[:i].count('"')] + '"'

                command = '"%s" %s' % (EDITOR, s)
                subprocess.Popen(command)

  2. Then add the following line to C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages\User\Default (Windows).sublime-keymap:

    { "keys": ["ctrl+alt+enter"], "command": "lllaunch" }

  3. Restart Sublime Text.

  4. Now:

    • doing CTRLALTENTER on an URL will open browser.
    • doing CTRLALTENTER on a filename with quotes (e.g. "C:\test\readme.txt") will edit the file in your favorite editor.

Upvotes: 4

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