[TxMt] Re: How to use "Find in Project" functionality in a command (help appreciated)

[Bert Fitié]

On Nov 7, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Jacob Rus wrote:

> Bert Fitié wrote:
>> 1. I'm a happy (64-year old, retired) enduser of textmate, not a  
>> programmer.
>> 2. I'm using a textmate project as my "personal textbase". The  
>> project has many markdown files. I don't use markdown as a source  
>> to convert to html but as the real thing, as my final product  
>> (with an occasional preview for reading convenience).
>> 3. My markdown file is a container for one or more articles, each  
>> about a separate topic. Every article is uniquely identified by a  
>> tag in the form of a string "tagid=<tagid>".
>> 4. I'm using crossreferences to other articles in the form of a  
>> string "tagref=<tagid>".
>> 5. To link from a tagref to the associated unique tagid I use the  
>> "Find in Project" dialog. I type "tagid=<tagid>" and click the  
>> single link in the result to load the relevant file.
>> 6. I love to have the following command: with the caret in a  
>> "tagref=<tagid>" reference and pushing the enter key, the relevant  
>> file automatically loads.
>> 7. I have no idea how to make this command; help is appreciated.
>
> Instead, I suggest using regular (relative) markdown links for your  
> cross-references, and just using the regular syntax, as you would  
> with any other links.  That way, we can instead make a command  
> which opens a general markdown link, either in the browser if it's  
> an html page, or in an image editor/textmate if it's a local file.   
> I've personally wanted such a command for a long time.
>
> -Jacob
>
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I second your suggestion, it would be a nice addition to markdown.

The present <URL> construct in markdown cannot be used for regular  
local links since it does not allow local URLs like file:// or  
txmt://. Only internet links like <http://..> or <ftp://..> are  
supported.

This does, however, not solve my problem. Using a regular markdown  
link requires knowing the file that contains the relevant article.  
But I want the articles to be agnostic about their file container.  
When I reorganize my articles (for example, because they grow or  
shrink in size) I may combine them in the same file or put them in  
different files). Whatever I do, I don't want to update my links.  
That's the reason that I'm using a 'tagid' as identifier for an  
article and 'tagref' as reference and that I link on basis of a  
search (I don't know the file, only that it is in my project). So I  
still have good use for the proposed command and a need for "Find in  
Project" functionality for this command.