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Rich
Asked: 2010-12-01 04:05:14 +0800 CST

Does Geany or Gedit provide a browser protocol in the way Textmate does with txmt://?

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Textmate on the Mac can be bound to the txmt protocol, meaning that development frameworks (such as the Play Framework) can be configured to use this to display error messages. If a stacktrace appears, each line of the stacktrace is a URL of the format (I'm guessing):

txmt:///home/myuser/projects/myproject/ProblemFile.java:123

(where 123 is the line number).

Clicking this opens the file in Textmate.

Is this possible with Gedit, Geany or another programmer's text editor?

programming gedit

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    it's possible to easily create new protocol handlers in Gnome, all you have to do is add some keys in gconf.

    In a terminal, type: 

    gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/foo/command '/path/to/app %s' --type String
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/foo/enabled --type Boolean true

    Replace foo on both lines with the protocol you want to register and /path/to/app with the path to the application you want to run. (from : http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol#All_Firefox_versions )

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  2. The accepted answer does not work on 11.04.

    Here's my solution for gedit on 11.04: http://rystraum.com/blog/2012/05/rails-footnotes-with-gedit/

    TLDR; version:

    1. Create /usr/share/applications/foo-uri.desktop:

      [Desktop Entry]
Name=Foo
GenericName=Foo
Comment=Open foo links in Gedit
TryExec=open_gedit
Exec=open_gedit %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/foo
NoDisplay=true

    2. Run sudo update-desktop-database

    3. open_gedit script inside location that is in $PATH

      #!/bin/bash
FILE=$1
FILE=${FILE/foo\:\/\//}
LINE=$(echo $FILE | grep -o "\&line=[0-9]\+")
LINE=$(echo $LINE | grep -o "[0-9]\+")
FILE=$(echo $FILE | grep -o "\(.\+\)\&")
FILE=$(echo $FILE | cut -d'&' -f1)
gedit +$LINE $FILE

    4. Call as foo:///path/to/file&line=299

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  3. My best shot using Python (probably misses some edge cases):

    gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/geany/command ' python -c "import urlparse;import sys;import pipes;url=\"http\"+sys.argv[1][5:];import os; up=urlparse.urlparse(url);os.system(\"geany \"+(pipes.quote(\"/\"+up.netloc+up.path)+\" --socket-file /tmp/geany --line \" + pipes.quote(up.query)))" %s' --type String
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/geany/enabled --type Boolean true

    Will start opening geany://home/www/index.php?239 as /home/www/index.php at line 239 using /tmp/geany as socket (to avoid opening many instances of geany)

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