RegExLink
=========

A Sublime Text plugin that open links and commands formatting it using a regular expression.

With this kink of definition you can open a link direcly in your browser or open a filesystem path in explorer.
It's very useful to combine keyword with url so you can make a Google search typing something like GOOGLE:query or open 
the wikipedia page with a specific topic using WIKI:WikiPage.

I use it to trap something light BUG #1234 to open the bugtracker at the 1234 issue page.

You can define your custom regule expresion like in the following code. By default an url and a filesystem definition is
configured.

```
  // URL 
  { 
     "name" : "Url",
     "regex" : "(http://[^\\s]+)",
     "link" : "$1",                                     // all the link 
     "style": "string"                                  // string, invalid, variable, comment, variable.parameter
  },
  // Open a path like C:\Users\Antonio\Documenti using Explorer 
  { 
     "name" : "Filesystem",
     "regex" : "file://([^\\s]+)",
     "command" : "explorer c:\\$1",                     //you can specify a command
     "style": "comment"
  },
  // Search on Google 
  //{ 
  //   "name" : "Google",
  //   "regex" : "GOOGLE:([^\\s]+)", 
  //   "link" : "https://www.google.it/search?q=$1",    //you can specify a link transformation
  //   "style": "variable"
  //},
  //{ 
  //   "name" : "Wikipedia",
  //   "regex" : "WIKI:([a-zA-Z0-9]+)",
  //   "link" : "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1",
  //   "style": "string"
  //},
```

Automatically maches are highlighted with colour of the style, so you can see something like in the following screenshot.

![](images/screenshot1.png)

To open the link, use the command *Open Link from Regular Expression*, al selected region (you can also open multiple link 
with one command) or what is under the caret will be launched. You can also use the entry in the contextual menu.

![](images/screenshot2.png)

The command for shortcut association is *reg_ex_link*

## License
Copyright 2014-2014 [Antonio Riva](http://www.antonioriva.net)