Craig,

So you are want to open urls to files and folders from an open document in 
bbedit?
Assuming I got that right, there is an 'Open URL' contextual menu. Just right 
(ctrl) click on a url and have at it.

There is also Edit > Copy Path > Copy URL to get an escaped version of the open 
file’s URL.
Such as: file:///Users/chris/Desktop/file%20with%20spaces.txt 
<file:///Users/chris/Desktop/file%20with%20spaces.txt>

Also 'CMD I' will open an info panel on the open doc that you can copy the path 
from.

Does that help?
— Chris(topher)?



> On Jan 10, 2022, at 3:45 PM, Craig Heilman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> In my local note files (text but with .md file extension), I often include 
> links to other files using the file URL scheme (“<file:///User/me 
> <file:///User/me>/…>”) as I can then easily navigate to those files by simply 
> Cmd-clicking anywhere in the URL. For several years I’ve been using Path 
> Finder as a Finder replacement and it provides a context menu item of “Copy 
> Path -> URL” which makes it pretty easy to get a file URL in the proper 
> format (i.e., it automatically encodes spaces etc.).
> 
> I’m transitioning to a new MacBook Pro (M1 Max - sweet!) and moving from 
> Mojave to Monterey in the process. I’m also considering moving from Path 
> Finder to ForkLift or similar or even just the plain old Finder. I know I can 
> get the *path* to any file in the Finder or ForkLift but to use it as a URL 
> in BBEdit would require massaging the copied data.
> 
> Bringing this back to BBEdit - is there anything in BBEdit that can simplify 
> this process? I like the idea of starting with the path because that doesn’t 
> lock me into any of the Finder/Finder replacements but how to make this as 
> close to copy/paste as possible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Craig
> 
> P.S. anyone using hook (https://hookproductivity.com 
> <https://hookproductivity.com/>) for stuff like this?
> 
> --
> Craig Heilman
> Bugaboo Software
> 
> 
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