It simply takes a link like: https://github.com/magit/forge/blob/master/lisp/forge-core.el#L23
or:
And attempts to open the file locally in Magit, assuming you have already cloned the repository.
Install and load using your favorite method. The package is not published on MELPA, for now you can use quelpa. here’s how I do it:
(require 'quelpa-use-package)
(use-package forge-visit-here
:quelpa (forge-visit-here
:fetcher github
:repo "agzam/forge-visit-here.el"))- Grab a GitHub link, e.g: https://github.com/foo/bar/blame/master/src/main.clj#L15
- Copy the link
- Run the function
M-x forge-visit-here
If you set magit-repository-directories, it would not prompt you for the directory of the repo, it’ll just grab it from the list.
i.e.: if the directory for foo project (used in the link above) is at: ~/dev-projects/foo,
and (setq magit-repository-directories '(("~/dev-projects" . 2))),
it will try to open the file in that repo, without asking for its directory.
- Why a separate package if it only has one function?
- Because I’d like to test it out first, before proposing this to be part of magit or magit-forge.
- Also, potentially it can grow to be a bit bigger. I have some ideas I want to implement.
- Does it only work with GitHub links?
- In theory it should also work with GitLab, but I have never tested
- Are you going to publish it on MELPA?
- I will. I just need to make sure this thing works first. It is at the very experimental stage.