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farcaller / DashDoc

Dash integration for Sublime Text
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Call Dash without activating it #36

Closed Kapeli closed 9 years ago

Kapeli commented 9 years ago

DashDoc calls Dash by opening a dash-plugin:// URL. The problem is that the system forces Dash to become active when this URL is opened.

Currently, this is not an issue. However, a future update of Dash will add support for iOS remotes. While an iOS remote is connected, extensions are redirected to it directly and Dash on OS X is not shown at all. Unfortunately there's no way for me to prevent the system from activating Dash when you open the dash-plugin:// URL.

Instead of doing this:

open dash-plugin://query

Can you do this?

open -g dash-plugin://query

The -g causes Dash to not get activated if it does not want to and the user experience is a lot better as the active app does not lose focus anymore.

It is safe to make this change as soon as possible (no need to wait for a Dash update), as the current version of Dash already knows to activate itself if it needs to.

Kapeli commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the quick fix! :+1:

farcaller commented 9 years ago

add support for iOS remotes

you got me motivated :smiley: