Copy url is not useful for local files

[thany]

The extension can know the url to a local file if there's a Github-repo associated with it, which in our case, there is.

However, the "copy url" function produces the following url for any given local file:

vscode://bxantus.mdoc/open/https/github.com/<organization>/<project>.git/./Getting-Started/Sitecore-Install.md

Probably this opens the correct file in VScode, I haven't checked. But regardless, it's not useful. It's not a url to the file, it's a url to opening the file in VScode, if that.

Clearly, it kind of knows where to go (i.e. Github) but it's unable to produce a url that is useful as-is. Instead, I'd expect it to produce a url more along the lines of:

https://github.com/<organization>/<project>/tree/master/Documentation/Getting-Started/Sitecore-Install.md

Because that, in this case, is where the associated git repo says this file is located.

On a sidenote, I also don't understand why the "copy url" button has to be so visually prominent in the breadcrumbs bar. Do you expect folks to use this button quite a lot?

[bxantus]

Thanks for the feedback! This links are meant to be shared with other vscode users having cloned the same documentation project (Maybe I should provide a better description for this functionality). I try to explain better in a few points below:

• The URI scheme should be vscode otherwise vscode wouldn't be used by default to open the URI (if you could provide the URLs as links from a browser for example).
• The links contain the address of the git remote, to uniquely identify the project (as users may clone the repo in different locations on their machine)
• As currently mdoc viewer doesn't provide an address bar (like browsers), you can't easily copy (thus share) links with others, that's why the copy url button is visible in most cases.
• There's a special command (probably mdoc open URL) for opening shared URLs from vscode

In a future update the UX design may change, based on feedbacks like yours. Currently I'm not planning to change it.

Hope this clarifies this functionality. Please let me know if this still doesn't help.

[thany]

Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense.

My point is mainly on sharing the link to a file with someone who, for any reason, doesn't (or cannot) have mdoc configured in their editor.

This only leaves the copy url button. I think it's a bit too prominent. I feel it serves better as a subtle clickable icon (perhaps a clipboard icon).