Sam, That was exactly what I wanted and it worked! THANK YOU! -Dan
On Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 3:46:41 PM UTC-5, Sam Hathaway wrote: > > I’m not sure what you are asking. I don’t know what you mean by a “file > icon”. > > What steps did you take to get the desired result in TextEdit? > > Are you trying to create .url files? If so, you can easily do this in > BBEdit: Create a new text file, type: > > [InternetShortcut] > URL=the url you want a shortcut to > > And save the files with a .url extension. > > BBEdit will prompt you to confirm that you want to save the file with a > non-standard extension. Tell it *Use .url*. > > For example, I just created example.url in BBEdit with these contents: > > [InternetShortcut] > URL=https://example.com/ > > When double-clicked, it opens example.com in my default browser (Firefox). > > The file is attached. Hope this helps. > -sam > > On 26 Nov 2019, at 13:17, Daniel D'Errico wrote: > > I have been using TextWrangler on my Mac for one specific task. I cannot > figure out how to get BBEdit to do it. Can you help? > The task: I want to turn the file icon into a URL. Anybody from Mac or > Windows can click on the file icon and it will open up a webpage. > I have attached a sample icon from TextEdit that does this. How do I > create a file in BBEdit to accomplish the same task? > Thank! > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or need technical support, please email > "[email protected] <javascript:>" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/a6d36f93-dea0-4d2e-982d-4a15d75d1211%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/a6d36f93-dea0-4d2e-982d-4a15d75d1211%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/16d3ac33-9618-4aea-be58-51e0a46df79d%40googlegroups.com.
