It is convenient and helpful to be able to use a reference to a file in Notepad3 like this file:///c:/Users/Thomas%20H.%20Schmidt/Documents/GitHub/README.md that actually allows to open (or edit) the file, see #3138. Since a recent Notepad3 release there is also a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+F10) to convert a path string "c:\Users\Thomas H. Schmidt\Documents\GitHub\README.md" to the URL format above.
The current file:// uses an absolute path which is sometimes annoying when moving the target file somewhere else.
It would be more convenient if Notepad3 was able to handle a file URL using a relative path, starting from the (working) directory where the currently edited file was loaded from.
Say I had opened "c:\Users\Thomas H. Schmidt\Documents\GitHub\README.md" and wanted to add a picture located in "c:\Users\Thomas H. Schmidt\Documents\GitHub\README-picture.jpg". It is easy to paste the file path and then use Ctrl+F10 to add the required file URL file:///c:/Users/Thomas%20H.%20Schmidt/Documents/GitHub/README-picture.jpg to the README file.
But what if I move all the files to some other place, e.g. to my Dropbox or an USB stick to take them with me? In this case I would have no luck when trying to look at the picture.
So using a relative path URL would be the solution here. If I am currently editing "c:\Users\Thomas H. Schmidt\Documents\GitHub\README.md" I could use file://./README-picture.jpg to refer to the picture in the same directory. I am not sure though if this (file://./name) is the correct format for the relative URL according to the lenghty discussion in File Uri Scheme and Relative Files.
So my feature request goes like this.
- Accept a relative file URL (
file://./name) as a hyperlink in Notepad3 documents, using the directory of the currently open file as base URL.
- Edit / Convert / File System Path to URL (Ctrl+F10) should convert to a relative file URL if the file has the same base URL as the currently open file. Pressing Ctrl+F10 twice could convert to an absolute file URL as it is done now.
It is convenient and helpful to be able to use a reference to a file in Notepad3 like this
file:///c:/Users/Thomas%20H.%20Schmidt/Documents/GitHub/README.mdthat actually allows to open (or edit) the file, see #3138. Since a recent Notepad3 release there is also a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+F10) to convert a path string"c:\Users\Thomas H. Schmidt\Documents\GitHub\README.md"to the URL format above.The current
file://uses an absolute path which is sometimes annoying when moving the target file somewhere else.It would be more convenient if Notepad3 was able to handle a file URL using a relative path, starting from the (working) directory where the currently edited file was loaded from.
Say I had opened
"c:\Users\Thomas H. Schmidt\Documents\GitHub\README.md"and wanted to add a picture located in"c:\Users\Thomas H. Schmidt\Documents\GitHub\README-picture.jpg". It is easy to paste the file path and then use Ctrl+F10 to add the required file URLfile:///c:/Users/Thomas%20H.%20Schmidt/Documents/GitHub/README-picture.jpgto the README file.But what if I move all the files to some other place, e.g. to my Dropbox or an USB stick to take them with me? In this case I would have no luck when trying to look at the picture.
So using a relative path URL would be the solution here. If I am currently editing
"c:\Users\Thomas H. Schmidt\Documents\GitHub\README.md"I could usefile://./README-picture.jpgto refer to the picture in the same directory. I am not sure though if this (file://./name) is the correct format for the relative URL according to the lenghty discussion in File Uri Scheme and Relative Files.So my feature request goes like this.
file://./name) as a hyperlink in Notepad3 documents, using the directory of the currently open file as base URL.