Open local files from comments

[leahrivkin]

Currently, the markdown support for comments allows referencing external HTTP links, but not relative/local paths. This is an issue for images (see https://github.com/microsoft/codetour/issues/18) and other files. This feature would be incredibly helpful when creating codetours or other comments for quick navigation.

For example, imagine you have this file tree

| src
| ––– controllers
|        | ––– api.ts
|        | ––– home.ts
│ ––– app.ts
| ––– server.ts

In app.ts leave a comment

Look at this cool file (api.ts)[./controllers/api.ts]

Click on the link and you will see the following error

2023-07-11 12:20:40.221 [error] Error: The editor could not be opened because the file was not found.
    at Eh.bc (vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:2290:19256)
    at async Eh.setInput (vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:2290:18343)
    at async e.$Kub.M (vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:2288:20301)
    at async e.$Kub.D (vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:2288:18969)
    at async e.$Kub.openEditor (vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:2288:17957)
    at async vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:2473:12434
    at async e.$uvb.G (vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:1156:82236)
    at async e.$uvb.openCodeEditor (vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:702:4560)
    at async g.open (vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:627:44144)
    at async e.$Dyb.open (vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:627:45282)
    at async a (vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:646:3828)

This feature was previously requested https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/93028 but closed due to inactivity. Please consider reopening it!

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[alexr00]

@mjbvz is there a way to tell the markdown renderer to use a specific root for relative paths? I didn't see anything in the markdown renderer options.