Open file

This extension enables the user to open a file under the current cursor position. Just right-click on a pathname within a open document and select the open file under cursor option (or just press Alt + P without right-click). If the file is found by vscode then it will open a new tab with this file.

If the string is has an tailing number separated by a colon (i.e. :23) it will open the file at the specified line number. :23:45 means line 23 column 45.

It is also possible to select one or more text segments in the document and open them.

Example

You have a document, containing some text, that exists in a folder, say c:\Users\guest\Documents\myfile.txt. In that file the path strings could look like as follows:

[...]
 c:\Users\guest\Documents\Temp\stuff.txt
[...]
 "..\..\administrator\readme.txt"
[...]
 "..\user\readme.txt:33"
[...]
 "my\path"

In case of the string leads to a path it will be opened in the default file manager.

With this extension you can right-click on such a path and choose open file under cursor and VSCode will open a new tab with that file.

Main Features

• support file string selection(s), or, no selection and auto detect path outside quotes or within quotes 'file-path'.
• support opening multiple files at a time. (Either a multi-lined selection or multiple selections.)
• path lookup from multiple locations to find nearest match: absolute, current document's folder, workspace, workspace's src, defined search paths, etc.
• line and column positioning with file:line:column.
• possible to open like [src/]class/SomeClass.php from just someClass. (Use case insensitive file system to support the different in letter case.)
• allow /path/to/sth to be lookup as both absolute and relative path. Useful for code like projectFolder + '/path/to/sth'.
• support opening single or multiple files from Linux grep output with line number, which has the line pattern file:line[:column]:content (content is discarded).
• fallback to VS Code's "Quick Open" input box if file not found. (For handy custom search, or find containing files if the path is a folder in the workspace.)
• include a simple "Open file like this file" command to call Quick Open with current file's relative path (without file extension), for lookup files like it.
• Using environment variables as part of a path string, $HOME/bin/file.txt

Path Lookup Detail

Relative paths are relative to the these folders (in listed order):

1. Currently opened document's folder, and

   (if it is within a workspace folder) the document's parent folders (up to the workspace folder).

2. All workspace folders, and their sub-folders listed in the option seito-openfile.searchSubFoldersOfWorkspaceFolders.

3. All search paths in the option seito-openfile.searchPaths.

Remarks:

• Absolute paths /... (/ or \), if not found, are searched like relative paths too.
• If ~/... paths not found from user's home, the step 2 of "Relative paths" is searched if option seito-openfile.lookupTildePathAlsoFromWorkspace is true.