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Open URI Context Menu: open an URI from gedit

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Overview

"Open URI Context Menu" is a plugin for gedit, the default Gnome text editor. This plugin adds two context menu items when we right-click on an URI present in the file content: open on the browser or open on gedit to view source code.

Original version was developed by Martin Szulecki for gedit 2.

The current repository is a port of the plugin to gedit 3.

Requirements

The plugin uses the command xdg-open from the package xdg-utils.

Installation

Download the archive of the latest version.
Extract the archive.
Copy files open-uri-context-menu.plugin and open-uri-context-menu.py in the following folder:
```
~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/
```
Enable the plugin in the gedit menu Edit > Preferences > Plugins.

Development

Last version: 1.0.1 (2012-05-22)

Git is used for revision control. Repository can be browsed online or cloned.

"Open URI Context Menu" has an issue tracker, on which bug reports and feature requests can be submitted.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Link to this page

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<a href="http://www.jpfleury.net/en/software/open-uri-context-menu.php">Open URI Context Menu: open an URI from gedit | Jean-Philippe Fleury</a>

Comments (2)

pc-wurm wrote on 2013-04-12 at 18:43 (link):

Is it possible to assign "Ctrl + Left Click" to open the link on browser?
jpfleury wrote on 2013-04-12 at 21:53 (link):

@pc-wurm: sorry, I don't know how to manage clicks on a keyboard shortcut, nor even if it's possible. I've looked for a plugin using clicks on keyboard shortcuts, but I didn't find anything.