If you have so many files you might want to consider something like Eclipse;
if you do Ctrl + Shift + R a box pops up allowing you to type the name of a
file and allows you to select that file. Usually a few characters is all you
need and it will have cut down the list to the one you where looking for.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:13 PM, LynnR <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I'm not asking or expecting Firebug to implement anything like this
> for me on a silver platter.  I plan to write my own script or program
> to post-process the file name, find the specific file in my source
> tree, open it in my IDE, and go to the given line number, assuming
> that is a parameter.  I'm only asking what are the arguments passed by
> Firebug to the 'Open With Editor' command and hoping that it includes
> the line number so I can pass it to my script.   I do use an IDE (a
> rather simple one) but I don't always have all the files open (there
> are hundreds).   Instead of searching in the 'open file' menus or in
> windows explorer to find the file and going to the line manually, I'd
> like to have Firebug pass the filename and line number to my script.
> Firebug doesn't have to figure out the whole file path (it does not
> have this information), my own script can parse out the final part of
> the filename and post-process this to find the file in my source
> tree.  Ninety-nine percent of the (hundreds) of files in my project
> are unique in the leaf name, so if I know the last part is 'foo.js',
> my script can find it in one of my source directories.
>
> So, can anyone tell me if the line number is passed by Firebug?
>
>
> On Feb 7, 6:09 am, Brian Di Palma <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I develop a web app and I have never needed or wanted the 'Open with
> Editor'
> > option or what you are asking for.
> > Surely you have all these files open and part of your project in Eclipse,
> > Netbeans or whichever IDE you may be using?
> >
> > If you want Firebug to open the file where it is locally on your machine
> > inside your dev environment I think you are asking for something that
> > Firebug can't do as the files Firebug is parsing are being served from a
> web
> > app server and not your local file system Firebug and Firefox can't tell
> the
> > web server is actually getting files from the local file system.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:44 PM, LynnR <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >  Thank you for the wonderful Firebug tool.
> >
> > >  I have a question about how to use 'Open Editor' to debug javascript
> > > in the 'Script' tab.   I've configured Firebug to open my favorite
> > > text editor via the 'Open Editor' menu (View->Open With Editor-
> > > >Configured Editors') but now I need to figure out how to pass the
> > > line number to my editor.  There's a field in the configuration dialog
> > > for launch arguments but I don't know how to set these in conjunction
> > > with whatever arguments Firebug can pass.   Let's say my editor
> > > expects to be invoked as:   myeditor.exe -n linenumber filename, is
> > > there a way configure the launch arguments to do this, i.e. are there
> > > placeholders for filename and line number perhaps?   What arguments
> > > does Firebug pass to the editor and in what order?  If Firebug passes
> > > 'filepath linenumber', I could configure it to invoke a script that
> > > expects the line number as the second parameter and then calls my
> > > favorite editor using its expected argument syntax.  Hopefully Firebug
> > > will invoke a .bat file and not just an .exe file (haven't tried this
> > > yet)?    I need to do this anyway since I need to post-process the
> > > file name of the javascript file and change the path to not be in
> > > \temp (my Javascript files are not local, they are served by a servlet
> > > so right now when I 'open with editor' it gives me a copy of the file
> > > in C:\temp).  Today, after debugging a problem in Firebug, I have to
> > > manually find and open the specific JavaScript file in my source code
> > > control tree view and manually go to the specific line when I want to
> > > make and save a fix, and it would be very nice to streamline these
> > > steps.   I know I'd still need to reload the page or perhaps restart
> > > Firefox after saving the fix but I always do that anyway.
> >
> > >  In short, I'd like to know what arguments Firebug is passing to the
> > > editor when you 'Open With Editor'.  I really hope it includes the
> > > line number.  It would be nice if the 'Open With Editor' option were
> > > included in the context menu if you right click on a line of code in
> > > the Script panel.  (BTW, I'm using Firefox 2, out of necessity on my
> > > project, and Firebug 1.2.1).   This quick and easy 'go to line X in my
> > > source file' feature would help anyone like me who is developing and
> > > debugging a web app (as opposed to local JS files), and needs to be
> > > able to quickly edit the source wherever it may be and using the
> > > user's favorite IDE.
> >
> > >  If anyone can help, please post to this forum since I don't check the
> > > Google email account frequently.
> >
> > > Thanks in advance!- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
> >
>

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