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fabiospampinato / vscode-open-in-application

Open an arbitrary file in its default app, or the app you want.
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Assigned Keyboard shortcut to `Open in Application`, But creates errors. #7

Closed lamyergeier closed 5 years ago

lamyergeier commented 5 years ago

Assigned Keyboard shortcut to Open in Application. But I get this error For this file you'll have to trigger this action from the right-click menu when I try to open a pdf file in system application.

fabiospampinato commented 5 years ago

There's no API for retrieving the path of open binary files, so for those situations you should right-click the tab and perform the action from there.

macromaniac commented 5 months ago

I want to add that you can still use keyboard shortcuts here to open the file. Since "Open in Application" is at the top (hopefully always), you can open whatever file you have with the following hotkey combo (assuming the file is open in your editor, e.g. select the file with ctrl p):

Ctrl+Shift+e - Focus explorer window Right click - (your keyboard needs to have a key for right click) Down - go down in the context menu Enter - select this context menu item

Once you get good at the combo you can do this pretty quick