How can I make rails_footnotes open files using Sublime Text 2?

Question

I'm not asking how to tell footnotes how to do this - I'm using this line in the initializers/footnotes.rb file:

Footnotes::Filter.prefix = 'txmt://open?url=file://%s&line=%d&column=%d'

My question is what should go in place of the txmt://open?...? I've tried subl:// and sblm:// but no joy. Is it something to do with the open?url= etc?

Sindee

Answer 1

subl-handler works by interpreting txmt urls, and forwarding them to Sublime. If you, like me, have TextMate or any other application currently responding to txmt, then subl-handler will never run, and won't be able to help you. If that's the case, you need a utility like RCDefaultApp to change the default handler for txmt urls from TextMate (or whatever it currently is) to subl-handler.

So, the full instructions (per here) are:

1. Github repo for subl-handler project Install & configure subl-handler
2. Install RCDefaultApp
3. Open the RCDefaultApp preference pane, and tell it to use subl-handler (not Sublime) for txmt URLs.

Bushing

This has got me the furthest so far... I've got it opening sublime for txmt:// links, but it's not opening the actual file - did you manage to get it to do that? – Sindee

You're totally right. After some further troubleshooting, I think I got it, though. Updating above. – Bushing

@JulesCopeland, @Taavo, did these exact instructions work for you on OSX 10.6.8? I just attempted to open subl-handler as downloaded from the link in the answer and got a SublHandler quit unexpectedly error. – Murielmurielle

Got it working on OSX 10.6.8 by doing the following (I'm sure there's a better way...): Downloaded a zip of Scott Wadden's repo of Sublhandler not from the broken download link in the README, but a zip of the repo. Unzipped the file, copied the Debug app from build/Debug/SublHandler.app into my Applications folder, and then completed the instructions on the rails_footnotes repo for Sublime Text 2. Hope this helps someone else who's wondering why the SublHandler app is crashing for them. – Murielmurielle

Answer 2

Sublime Text 2 doesn't have a protocol handler. However, you can map textmate's txmt to Sublime Text using this app: https://github.com/hiddenbek/subl-handler

There is also a Sublime Text plugin that adds a sblm: url handler (Windows-only): https://bitbucket.org/sublimator/sublimeprotocol/src/

Lucarne

Sounds like a good soultion, but can't seem to get it working on my system (Mac OSX 10.6.8). – Sindee

Thanks for the link to the subl-handler app. Works great and was one of the few things I missed going from Textmate to Sublime. – Alisaalisan