Overview

"Open URI Context Menu" is a plugin for gedit, the default Gnome text editor. This plugin adds two context menu items when we right-click on an URI present in the file content: open on the browser or open on gedit to view source code.

Original version was developed by Martin Szulecki for gedit 2.

The current repository is a port of the plugin to gedit 3.

Requirements

The plugin uses the command xdg-open from the package xdg-utils.

Installation

• Download the appropriate version according to your situation:

  • for gedit 3.0 to 3.6: download Open URI Context Menu v1;

  • for gedit 3.8 to 3.12: download Open URI Context Menu v2;

  • for gedit 3.14 and newer: download Open URI Context Menu v3.

• Extract the archive.

• Copy files open-uri-context-menu.plugin and open-uri-context-menu.py in the following folder:

    ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/
  

• Enable the plugin in the gedit menu Edit > Preferences > Plugins.

Development

Git is used for revision control. Repository can be browsed online or cloned.

License

Authors: Martin Szulecki <[email protected]>, Jean-Philippe Fleury (http://www.jpfleury.net/en/contact.php)
Copyright © 2007-2008 Martin Szulecki
Copyright © 2011 Jean-Philippe Fleury

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.