NAME

Open::This - Try to Do the Right Thing when opening files

VERSION

version 0.000018

DESCRIPTION

This module powers the ot command line script, which tries to do the right thing when opening a file. Imagine your $ENV{EDITOR} is set to vim. (This should also work for emacs and nano.) The following examples demonstrate how your input is translated when launching your editor.

    ot Foo::Bar # vim lib/Foo/Bar.pm
    ot Foo::Bar # vim t/lib/Foo/Bar.pm

Imagine this module has a sub do_something at line 55.

    ot "Foo::Bar::do_something()" # vim +55 lib/Foo/Bar.pm

Or, when copy/pasting from a stack trace. (Note that you do not need quotes in this case.)

    ot Foo::Bar line 36 # vim +36 lib/Foo/Bar.pm

Copy/pasting a git-grep result.

    ot lib/Foo/Bar.pm:99 # vim +99 Foo/Bar.pm

Copy/pasting a partial GitHub URL.

    ot lib/Foo/Bar.pm#L100 # vim +100 Foo/Bar.pm

Open a local file on the GitHub web site in your web browser. From within a checked out copy of https://github.com/oalders/open-this

    ot -b Foo::Bar

Open a local file at the correct line on the GitHub web site in your web browser. From within a checked out copy of https://github.com/oalders/open-this:

    ot -b Open::This line 50
    # https://github.com/oalders/open-this/blob/master/lib/Open/This.pm#L50

FUNCTIONS

parse_text

Given a scalar value or an array of scalars, this function will try to extract useful information from it. Returns a hashref on success. Returns undef on failure. file_name is the only hash key which is guaranteed to be in the hash.

    use Open::This qw( parse_text );
    my $parsed = parse_text('t/lib/Foo/Bar.pm:32');

    # $parsed = { file_name => 't/lib/Foo/Bar.pm', line_number => 32, }

    my $with_sub_name = parse_text( 'Foo::Bar::do_something()' );

    # $with_sub_name = {
    #     file_name     => 't/lib/Foo/Bar.pm',
    #     line_number   => 3,
    #     original_text => 't/lib/Foo/Bar.pm:32',
    #     sub_name      => 'do_something',
    # };

to_editor_args

Given a scalar value, this calls parse_text() and returns an array of values which can be passed at the command line to an editor.

    my @args = to_editor_args('Foo::Bar::do_something()');
    # @args = ( '+3', 't/lib/Foo/Bar.pm' );

editor_args_from_parsed_text

If you have a hashref from the parse_text function, you can get editor args via this function. (The faster way is just to call to_editor_args directly.)

    my @args
        = editor_args_from_parsed_text( parse_text('t/lib/Foo/Bar.pm:32') );

maybe_get_url_from_parsed_text

Tries to return an URL to a Git repository for a checked out file. The URL will be built using the origin remote and the name of the current branch. A line number will be attached if it can be parsed from the text. This has only currently be tested with GitHub URLs and it assumes you're working on a branch which has already been pushed to your remote.

    my $url = maybe_get_url_from_parsed_text( parse_text('t/lib/Foo/Bar.pm:32'));
    # $url might be something like: https://github.com/oalders/open-this/blob/master/lib/Open/This.pm#L32

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

By default, ot will search your lib and t/lib directories for local files. You can override this via the $ENV{OPEN_THIS_LIBS} variable. It accepts a comma-separated list of libs.

AUTHOR

Olaf Alders <olaf@wundercounter.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2018 by Olaf Alders.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Open::This

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Open::This