URI Quick Linker

URI Quick Linker is a fast way to copy, paste, and jump to URI links in your project. This makes it easy to make a way to link to a specific page in your project from a different page.

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View Demo Video @ https://github.com/CHE-11/uri-quick-linker/assets/57516026/c086b7c7-dbc0-40bc-be0e-68a306ec9416 if you cannot see the video above.

Usage

The extension gives you three options on the right click context menu:

• Copy URI and Line Number
• Paste Commented URI
• Format URI's

There is another option in the command palette:

• Format Commented URI's - Sometimes the extension glitches and doesn't turn the URI into a link. This option will format the URI into a link.

Config

There are three settings that can be changed:

• uriQuickLinker.useVSCodeInsiders : boolean - Set to true if you use a vscode insider build
• uriQuickLinker.includeColumn : boolean - Set to true if you want to include the column number in the URI
• uriQuickLinker.fileTypes : object - Set different prefix and suffixs for different file types
• uriQuickLinker.linkColor : string - Format should included the # if you want to use a hex color.
• uriQuickLinker.showLinkIcon : boolean - Set to true if you want to show a link icon next to the URI

Development

To work on the extension, simple clone the repo, and run yarn install to install the dependencies. Then run the VS Code command Start Debugging to start the extension in a new window.

Packaging

If you don't have vsce install already, run npm install -g vsce to install it. Then run vsce package to create a .vsix file. You can then install this file in VS Code by running the command Extensions: Install from VSIX... in the command palette or right clicking on the file in vscode and selecting Install Extension VSIX.

Limitations

The links don't change their references when the referenced file is moved, edited, renamed, or deleted. This is a limitation of the extension. Maybe at some point I would like to make it watch for changes and update the links accordingly.

The links are also absolute, so for distributed projects, the links will not work. For me, this works just fine as I setup all projects to use the exact same paths across my 4 computers. But it would be nice to have a way to make the links relative for others to use.

But for now, it is what it is.

Acknowlegements

My extension is heavily based off Elliot Betancourt's Extension - hipdot-vs-code-url-scheme-grabber which is heavily based off the hardwork of Nisanth Chunduru's Extension - vscode-copy-filepath-with-line-number.

Big thanks to both!