Hi, I’d like to change the “go to anything” functionality to accept a different way to get to a line in a file.

For example, if I type in the “Go to Anything” dialog “DashboardPage.php on line 195” - I want to get to line 195 on DashboardPage.php

I know the original syntax is “DashboardPage.php:195”, but it would be great to overwrite that for me.

Is this achievable via configuration or plugin? I looked into some of the API, in particular the sublime_plugin.EventListener but could not find a way to hook this functionality.

Thanks

It is possible to write an plugin that works so. And you can bind the command-call to the default hotkey.
But one question:
Why do you want to type more characters than needed?
I don’t understand the sense behind this.

[quote] But one question:
Why do you want to type more characters than needed?
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That’s a good question, I see the pattern “DashboardPage.php on line 195” very often in the error logs on my application, when I copy and paste it to Sublime I have to remove the " on line " each time, would be good if that was automatically, also I wanted to know more about building a simple plugin for sublime so thought this would be a good chance to learn.

Can you explain how I would start binding the command-call to the default hotkey? As I mentioned I have looked at sublimetext.com/docs/3/api_reference.html though the sublime_plugin.EventListener does not seem to handle what I asked.

Thanks

This is something similar:
github.com/bizoo/GotoSelection/ … lection.py
Take a look at it and ask if you don’t understand something.

Note that pasting a text containing : or @ in the Go to Anything edit doesn’t always works well, it depend of the first result from ST search.

Thanks for the reply.

In this plugin you are finding the text from the selection, which is what you wanted. One question I have now is how I do get the text that has been inserted in the “show_overlay”?