Browse file on remote

[vermiculus]

Optionally with selected region highlighted.

vermiculus/magithub#400

[vermiculus]

This will probably involve a new slot (or three) in forge-repository:

• base URL of the file at a commit / on a branch
• above + anchor line
• above + start & end anchor lines

[tarsius]

Browse file on remote

Yes, though I don't think that's urgent. I prefer viewing files in
Emacs :-)

While I would probably not "browse" files much, I would still like
to be able to quickly get the corresponding url so that I can paste
them somewhere. Luckily you have added support for that recently ;-)

This will probably involve a new slot (or three) in forge-repository

But those will just be class-allocated *-format slots right? So not
a big deal.

[tarsius]

Oh, and feel free to add issues such as this one, but please add the enhancement label right away.

Also if you do intend on something yourself, then assign it to yourself. Hm, you probably are not allowed to do that yet. Time to give you some permissions.

[vermiculus]

Hm, you probably are not allowed to do that yet. Time to give you some permissions.

I would like that :-) I'm normally very diligent about labeling issues I create (at least in my repositories).

[Linuus]

Any status on this one? Would be a really great feature!

[achempion]

There is a package with the same name which does the same thing https://github.com/rmuslimov/browse-at-remote.

[Linuus]

There is a package with the same name which does the same thing https://github.com/rmuslimov/browse-at-remote.

Yeah I know. There are multiple, I am using git-link myself: https://github.com/sshaw/git-link

It would just be nice to have it in forge/magit instead :)

[fredefox]

I created a snippet for this. I took inspiration for how forge-browse-commit was implemented. Here's what I came up with:

(defun forge-browse-buffer-file ()
  (interactive
   (browse-url
    (let
        ((rev (magit-get-current-branch))
         (repo (forge-get-repository 'stub))
         (file (file-relative-name buffer-file-name (projectile-project-root))))
      (forge--format repo "https://%h/%o/%n/blob/%r/%f"
                     `((?r . ,rev) (?f . ,file)))))))

It requires projectile for figuring out the project-relative path of currently visited file.

[srcrip]

@fredefox's implementation is cool but projectile-project-root is a little janky for me. It would be nice if magit just kept a variable referencing the relative path (from the base git directory) to the current buffer. I would think it wouldn't be hard, but my elisp-fu kinda sucks.

[tarsius]

It would be nice if magit just kept a variable referencing the relative path (from the base git directory) to the current buffer.

(magit-file-relative-name buffer-file-name)

[raszi]

This feature would be really useful if you would like to send over a reference to a file or a highlighted couple of lines to somebody over chat or email.

[fredefox]

This feature would be really useful if you would like to send over a reference to a file or a highlighted couple of lines to somebody over chat or email.

I suppose you could combine the snippet @tarsius shared with the snippet I wrote replacing browse-url with kill-new.

[bezirg]

This feature would be really useful if you would like to send over a reference to a file or a highlighted couple of lines to somebody over chat or email.

I suppose you could combine the snippet @tarsius shared with the snippet I wrote replacing browse-url with kill-new.

(defun forge-browse-buffer-file ()
  (interactive)
  (kill-new
    (let
        ((rev (magit-get-current-branch))
         (repo (forge-get-repository 'stub))
         (file (magit-file-relative-name buffer-file-name)))
      (forge--format repo "https://%h/%o/%n/blob/%r/%f"
                     `((?r . ,rev) (?f . ,file))))))

[raszi]

Thanks @bezirg I could understand and combine the two solutions. Actually I am working on a PR to add this functionality with line handling as well.

The solution is working so far but I am struggling with this issue.

[raszi]

I've created at PR #317

[umanwizard]

This version extends @fredefox 's to use the revision hash, rather than the branch name (so that the link is permanent), and adds highlighting from the region if applicable. (Only tested on GitHub so far)

(defun btv-forge-browse-buffer-file ()
  (interactive)
  (browse-url
   (let
       ((rev (magit-rev-abbrev "HEAD"))
        (repo (forge-get-repository 'stub))
        (file (magit-file-relative-name buffer-file-name))
        (highlight
         (if
             (use-region-p)
             (let ((l1 (line-number-at-pos (region-beginning)))
                   (l2 (line-number-at-pos (- (region-end) 1))))
               (format "#L%d-L%d" l1 l2))
           ""
           )))
     (forge--format repo "https://%h/%o/%n/blob/%r/%f%L"
                    `((?r . ,rev) (?f . ,file) (?L . ,highlight))))))

[fredefox]

That's a very nice addition. It's nice to see people share their creativity. I would probably replace magit-rev-abbrev with magit-rev-parse. Also I would suggest defining it as a helper forge--buffer-file so you can do e.g.:

(defun forge-browse-buffer-file ()
  (interactive)
  (browse-url (forge--buffer-file)))

(defun forge-buffer-file-as-kill ()
  (interactive)
  (kill-new (forge--buffer-file)))