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iTerm2 click handler

Project description

iterm2-dwim is a click handler for iTerm2. The aim is that you command-click on any file path, relative or absolute, and it opens the file in your editor. If there was a line number, your editor goes to that line. So, compiler/linter output, tracebacks, etc.

Currently Emacs, PyCharm and Sublime are supported. To choose which editor to use, see settings.py.

The following path-like patterns are supported. For the ones with line numbers, the file will be opened at that line.

Pattern

Type

Status

/absolute/path/to/file

Absolute path

relative/path/to/file

Relative path

relative/path/to/file:336:1:

Compiler / Linter etc output

a/relative/path/to/file

In git diff output

"/absolute/path/to/file.py", line 336, in some_function

Python stack traces

> /path/to/file.py(336)some_function()

Python ipdb output

Installation

  1. Clone this repo and run python setup.py develop.

  2. In settings.py, set the absolute path to the command-line utility that opens files in youe text editor / IDE. For PyCharm this is called charm, for Sublime this is called subl and for Emacs this is called emacsclient.

  3. Find the absolute path to the iterm2-dwim executable, by running the command which iterm2-dwim. For example, on my system, this is /usr/local/bin/iterm2-dwim.

  4. Open iTerm2 settings, click on “Profiles”, select your profile, click on the “Advanced” tab for that profile, and do two things (see screenshots below):

  5. In the “Smart Selection” section, click “Edit”, select the “Paths” rule, click “Edit Actions”, click “+” to add an action, choose “Run Command” and enter /absolute/path/to/iterm2-dwim \0 as the “Parameter”.

  6. In the “Semantic History” section, choose “Run command” and enter /absolute/path/to/iterm2-dwim \1 \4.

  7. Make sure you didn’t literally enter /absolute/path/to/ – the path should be the path from step (5), given by which iterm2-dwim.

  8. (Optional, but relative paths won’t be resolved without it): configure your shell prompt so that the current directory is written to a file named /tmp/cwd every time the prompt is displayed. For example, put this line in your ~/.bashrc:

    export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo $PWD > /tmp/cwd'
  9. ⌘-click on things!

Your iTerm2 settings should look something like this:

Optional configuration

  1. To get error message alerts, run brew install terminal-notifier and check it’s working with terminal-notifier -message hello.

For Emacs users: 1. Make sure that you are starting the emacs server in your emacs config file: elisp (require 'server) (unless (server-running-p) (server-start))

Debugging

This is under development and you will encounter problems initially. Probably, you’ll command click on something and nothing will happen.

You can’t use ipdb to debug it: the python process is started by iTerm2 and is not attached to your terminal’s standard input/output. Similarly, note that the python process inherits its environment from the iTerm2 process and thus does not have access to environment modifications made in your shell config file.

It writes a log: run tail -f /tmp/iterm2-dwim.log.

If nothing happens and nothing is written to the log, another trick is just to run it from the command line and see the traceback:

$ iterm2-dwim /some/file.py 'any text can go here'

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