[TxMt] Clickable URLs?

[Gnarlodious]

In Xcode, URLs are clickable, draggable and colored brightly so as to
make easily navigable CGI pages. Is this possible in TextMate?

-- Gnarlie

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[Michael Sheets]

On Mar 19, 2011, at 4:28 AM, Gnarlodious wrote:

> In Xcode, URLs are clickable, draggable and colored brightly so as to
> make easily navigable CGI pages. Is this possible in TextMate?

Everything except making them clickable is possible. The first catch is to use a syntax that recognizes URLs, the plain text grammar does this. For coloring: once it's matched you can customize the color with a theme by using it's scope. For opening the url we use the enter key while the caret is inside the url (enter not return).

[Dru Kepple]

On Mar 21, 2011, at 2:49 AM, Michael Sheets wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2011, at 4:28 AM, Gnarlodious wrote:
>
>> In Xcode, URLs are clickable, draggable and colored brightly so as to
>> make easily navigable CGI pages. Is this possible in TextMate?
>
> Everything except making them clickable is possible.

It's also worth pointing out that there is the textmate url scheme (see http://blog.macromates.com/2007/the-textmate-url-scheme/). It's not quite what you want, I know, but it seems like it would be possible to run your document through a command, parse it for links, add textmate-capable links, and present the output in an HTML window.

At that point, though, it might be easier to see if you could write a command that takes the current selection/word, and opens it as a textmate url.

Just spitballing, but maybe something like

#!/usr/bin/ruby
file = "file://" + STDIN.read
url = "txmt://open?url="+file
`open #{url}`

(I'm much more familiar with Ruby than Bash; it could probably be written in a single Bash line, but there it is)

In fact, I just tried it out, with input set to "Selected Text" or "Word", discard the output. Works just fine, assuming you have a full file path (didn't spend any cycles figuring out what to do with a project-relative URL...)

The downside of this, in light of what you're originally asking, is that you need to fully select the file or the link won't work, plus it's not a simple click, it's a select, then press keyboard shortcut, but that's probably still an improvement over not having any in-file linking.

Hope that helps...seems like with the right amount of elbow grease, you could get something pretty slick rolling.

+dru