open-in-app

Open your file in any of your external application instantly
aviatesk
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Atom Open-in-App

This very simple Atom package allows you open any of your file instantly from Atom in any application you want.

overview

Main features

  • Files can be opened both from text editor and tree view.
  • You can open files easily from context menu, instantly with key bindings.
    • Keyboard shortcut support is provided even on .tree-view element.
  • Application bindings are configurable: You can set default application in which files gonna be opened, and even more create file-extension to application mappings.

(For developers, this package is developed with TypeScript, and thus the code can be a simple example for you to develop an Atom package with TypeScript. Any question or idea is welcome ! 😆)

Usage

You can open any of your file from context menu:

  • Right-click text-editor or tree-view -> Select Open File in App

Or you can use keyboard shortcuts:

  • (In text editor or tree-view focus) Just type Ctrl-Shift-B

Configuration

Application Bindings:

  • Binds file extensions to any of your application. This field should be a valid JSON mapping from an extension to a path to an application.
  • E.g.: { ".html": "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe", ".txt": "C:/Windows/System32/notepad.exe" }(both keys and values need to be wrapped by double quotations) will open every .html files in chrome and .txt files in notepad in Windows.

Default Application:

  • Sets a default application in which files without any binding will be opened. If you leave this field blank, then the files without application-binding should be opened in a default application, which would be detected by your OS.
  • E.g.: C:/Users/USERNAME/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code(no need to wrap by double quotations this time) would open every non-bound file in VS Code. (But you know, we Atom lovers should NOT do this at any cost 😜 !)

Configuration example on Windows: ~/.atom/config.cson

"*":
    ...
    "open-in-app":
        applicationBindings: "{ \".html\": \"C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe\", \".txt\": \"C:/Windows/System32/notepad.exe\" }"
        defaultApplication: "C:/Users/USERNAME/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code"
    ...

License

This package is under MIT License.

Acknowledgements

Author

  • KADOWAKI, Shuhei - Undergraduate@Kyoto Univ. - aviatesk