Opens URLs, files, folders, or googles text under the cursor or in a text selection.

Any one of these:

• Install using the Sublime Package Manager
• Copy the open_url folder in your Packages directory. Click Preferences menu > Browse Packages...
• Clone into your Packages folder, from the Packages folder run:
  git clone https://github.com/noahcoad/open-url.git

Put the cursor under or select a url, file, folder, or text and run command.

• URLs = open in browser, like http://google.com or amazon.com/prime
• folder = open in finder/explorer, like c:\windows
• file = choice to Edit or Run, like ~/.bashrc
• other = google it, any text

Ways to run the command:

• ctrl+u
• right-click > 'Open URL' (from context menu)
• ctrl+shift+p > 'Open URL' (from list of ST2 commands)
• alt + double-click (opens what's under the cursor, does not open text selection)

Watch a little 1 min video demo.

You can set specific file extensions to be edit or run without being prompted with a menu. The default has been set for .sublime-project .txt and a few other files types. Open open_url.sublime-settings to change and add your own.

• If the action is 'edit' it will be opened for editing in Sublime
• If the action is 'run' it will be executed by the OS
• You can add an 'openwith': 'myprogram.exe' to the end of an 'endswith' line to specify a specific a program to open the file with. In this case the shell will execute the openwith program and the selection will be a parameter.

See also: You may like this Google Spell Check sublime package.

Credits: Thanks goes to peterc for starting a forum thread about this topic and KatsuomiK for his gist that was the start of this plugin.

Author: @noahcoad writes software for the heck of it and to make life just a little more efficient.