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

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

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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.