egyamado's answer was really helpful! You can enhance it for your particular setup with something like this:
import sublime, sublime_plugin
import webbrowser
class OpenBrowserCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit, keyPressed, localHost, pathToFiles):
for region in self.view.sel():
if not region.empty():
# Get the selected text
url = self.view.substr(region)
# prepend beginning of local host url
url = localHost + url
else:
# prepend beginning of local host url
url = localHost + self.view.file_name()
# replace local path to file
url = url.replace(pathToFiles, "")
if keyPressed == "1":
navigator = webbrowser.get("open -a /Applications/Firefox.app %s")
if keyPressed == "2":
navigator = webbrowser.get("open -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app %s")
if keyPressed == "3":
navigator = webbrowser.get("open -a /Applications/Safari.app %s")
navigator.open_new(url)
And then in your keybindings:
{ "keys": ["alt+1"], "command": "open_browser", "args": {"keyPressed": "1", "localHost": "http://nbrown.smartdestinations.com", "pathToFiles":"/opt/local/apache2/htdocs"}},
{ "keys": ["alt+2"], "command": "open_browser", "args": {"keyPressed": "2", "localHost": "http://nbrown.smartdestinations.com", "pathToFiles":"/opt/local/apache2/htdocs"}},
{ "keys": ["alt+3"], "command": "open_browser", "args": {"keyPressed": "3", "localHost": "http://nbrown.smartdestinations.com", "pathToFiles":"/opt/local/apache2/htdocs"}}
We store sample urls at the top of all our templates, so the first part allows you to highlight that sample URL and launch it in a browser. If no text is highlighted, it will simply use the file name. You can adjust the command calls in the keybindings to your localhost url and the system path to the documents you're working on.