[TxMt] Open URL

[Freek Dijkstra]

>>> First of all, open URL:
>>> I'm used to clicking on a URL in a text and go to that URL in a
>>> webbrowser.

>> For this there is "Open URL" in the Services menu, look at this hint
>> to assign a shortcut to it:
>> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040416191600412
> 
> It's also easy to make a custom command to open the selected URL. I
> put one inside my Text bundle. Here's the entire thing:
> 
>   open "$TM_SELECTED_TEXT"
> 
> Both of these solutions do require the URL to be selected first. A
> version that didn't require that (i.e. you could simply place the
> caret inside the URL) would be nice, but a bit more work.

Thanks for both hints!
However, I still prefer to have a "Open URL" in a contextual menu, for 
two reasons:
1. I can still use it without assigning a shortcut key (I admit that
   I probably am a minority, given TextMate heavily key-based operation,
   but I do like to use my mouse)
2. I think it is less clumsy then the other options, e.g. (a) hack
   /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Info.plist
   (as the macosxhints suggests; I don't mind hacking /Library, but DO
   mind hacking /System). (b) Install ICeCoffEE (which provides
   system-wide ⌘-click behaviour, but forces to install Application
   Enhancer (APE)) (c) Forces me to first select the URL.
3. It is in-line with other Editors, like Apple's TextEdit, Apple's
   Stickies, BareBones' BBEdit, TheCodingMonkeys' SubEthaEdit, TeXShop,
   -- in short most other editors I know of :-)


As a side-note: This is what the readme of ICeCoffEE told on this subject:

> Apple has provided ⌘-click URL opening in Mac OS X 10.2 and later in two places.
> 
> Apple’s Multilingual Text Editor (MLTE) service lets you ⌘-click URLs to open them. Apple’s FileMaker Pro 7 is an example of an application which uses MLTE.
> 
> Terminal lets you use ⌘-double-click URLs to open them.

I'm fine with either way (context menu with "Open URL", ⌘-click or 
⌘-double-click); alternatively, I recommend that TextMate does not 
underline URL's if it does not threat them special -- I found it utterly 
confusing that I got a visual clue that they were special, but could not 
act upon that.

Regards,
Freek