Opening atom:// with Atom

[probablycorey]

We want to use urls with the atom scheme (like atom://share-session/90210).

Is there a way to open these urls with Atom?

[nathansobo]

Will this interfere with anything related to the existing Atom publishing
protocol? Not that I necessarily think that's a show-stopper. Just curious.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Corey Johnson notifications@github.comwrote:

We want to use urls with the atom scheme (like
atom://share-session/90210).

Is there a way to open these urls with Atom?

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[zcbenz]

@probablycorey do you want it to be system global, so Atom would be opened with atom:// scheme urls when they are opened from other applications?

[probablycorey]

If possible that is what we want. The use case we are thinkin if is: one
person pastes an atom link into a chat room when another user clickes that
link it will open atom and join a collaboration session.

On Tuesday, July 9, 2013, Cheng Zhao wrote:

@probablycorey https://github.com/probablycorey do you want it to be
system global, so Atom would be opened with atom:// scheme urls when they
are opened from other applications?

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[nathansobo]

I'm pretty sure that's what he's talking about, yes.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Cheng Zhao notifications@github.com wrote:

@probablycorey https://github.com/probablycorey do you want it to be
system global, so Atom would be opened with atom:// scheme urls when they
are opened from other applications?

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[zcbenz]

It's now supported, see atom/atom@753b11c for usage example.

Some notes:

1. The open-url event may be emitted very early, even before the will-finish-launching event, this situation happens when Atom is started to open the URL. And we should also be careful not to open the empty editor in this case.
2. The open-url event can be emitted for multiple times after application finished launching, just like open-file.
3. OS X reads the Info.plist to register the URL scheme, so atom:// can work only after you opened the Atom.app for once.