Atom Open-in-App

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

overview

Main features
Usage
Configuration
License
Acknowledgements
Author

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

If you want to open a file in an external application when selecting it on Advanced-Open-File:

Set the configuration
Select a file from Advanced-Open-File

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 😜 !)

File extensions opened when selected in Advanced-Open-File

Sets file extensions that you want to open in a bound application when selected in Advanced-Open-File.
E.g.: [.html, .pdf] would open HTML and PDF files in the bound applications when they are opened by Advanced-Open-File.

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

"*":
  ...
  "open-in-app":
    advancedOpenFileExtensions: [
      ".pdf"
    ]
    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

While development, I cited considerable amount of code from Open in Browser Atom.io Package created by @magbicaleman.
This package is developed by TypeScript, I a lot referred to Atom TypeScript for "how to develop Atom package with TypeScript".

Author

KADOWAKI, Shuhei - Undergraduate@Kyoto Univ. - aviatesk

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