Hi,

find in files creates a new view with the results from the search. When I doule-click on a search result, ST opens the file at that location. How can I implement something like that in a plugin? Below is an example using the output panel. It create the panel and inserts the string “click me!”. How can I manage that double clicking on the text opens a different file on a specific location?

Thanks!

window = sublime.active_window()
s = "click me!"
output = window.create_output_panel("test")
output.run_command('erase_view')
output.run_command('append', {'characters': s})
window.run_command("show_panel", {"panel": "output. test"})

I don’t know how the find panel results buffer operates in that regard, but you could maybe hook into the double click behavior by abusing on_text_command and looking for the command that gets run when you double-click, which looks like so:

command: drag_select {"event": {"button": 1, "x": 467.5, "y": 412.5}} command: drag_select {"by": "words", "event": {"button": 1, "x": 467.5, "y": 412.5}}

first line is the first click, second line is the second click. You should be able to accurately filter the second command if it happens within a short time after the first command, has by: "words" set and similar x-y coordinates (maybe off by ±10).
But first you need to set some specific setting to your output panel that you can check for existance/value with the view the drag_select command is run on so that it doesn’t trigger on any view.

Hope this helps.

Note: It is required that the default mousemap is not changed for this, or at least it’s not guaranteed to work if it was changed.

Thanks! I really appreciate that you are taking the time to answer many of the questions about “Plugin Development”!

Not exactly what you want, but you can use the internal parser from ST used by build and search output with something like this:

s = "myfilename:10:12" file_regex = "(.+?):(\d):(\d)" output.settings().set("result_file_regex", file_regex)
You can double-click a result or use (SHIFT+)F4 to open the file.

The regexp for the search output is:

[code]>>> view.settings().get(“result_file_regex”)
‘^([A-Za-z\\/<].*):$’

view.settings().get(“result_line_regex”)
‘^ +([0-9]+):’[/code]

Oh my god, so that’s how it’s done!

That’s … kind of brilliant actually. I didn’t know the result regexes worked for normal views as well. I thought it was an output panel-only thing.

Not brillant, is stupid, the complete thing is hidden somewhere with a bunch of hidden regex. >.<
So to remove that annoying “double click to select a word opens a file” you can add something like this:

class AllowDoubleClickWordsInFindResultsEventListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
	def on_activated(self, view):
		if view.name() == 'Find Results':
			view.settings().set("result_file_regex", '')
			view.settings().set("result_line_regex", '')

Thanks >.<

if you erase result_file_regex and result_line_regex “next_result” stops working >.<

github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/433