Open in Editor extension for Visual Studio Code

The extension enables you to open a file in an alternative IDE or editor.

Editor support:

• Atom Editor
• Emacs
• IDEA 14 Community Edition
• Sublime Text
• PhpStorm
• Vim
• Visual Studio
• WebStorm

You also can use any other editor that is able to open files from command line.

Features

• Editor context menu
• File Explorer context menu
• Put a cursor in the same position.

Use the menu in the editor's tab or the explorer or just press F1 and type Open in External Editor. The selected file will be opened in an existing session of an alternative editor and put a cursor in the same position as it was in VS Code.

Keyboard Shortcut

You can also use Alt+Shift+E to open the file in the alternative editor.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

alt-editor.name: a string name of an editor.

Supported names are:

Name	Editor
atom	Atom Editor
emacs	Emacs (via Terminal, Mac OS and Linux only)
idea14ce	IDEA 14 CE
phpstorm	PhpStorm
sublime	Sublime Text
vim	Vim (via Terminal, Mac OS and Linux only)
visualstudio	Visual Studio
webstorm	WebStorm

Advanced settings

Use these setting if the editor currently is not supported or if the editor's path can't be detected automatically.

alt-editor.binary: a string path to the editor binary

alt-editor.args: a string of command line arguments which will be passed to the binary. The args can contain placeholders to be replaced by actual values. Supported placeholders: {filename}, {line} and {column}

alt-editor.terminal: set this to true if the editor should be opened in a terminal. Mac OS and Linux are supported.

Custom editors with key bindings

Use custom Keyboard Shortcuts to open the current file with different editors.

[{
  "key": "shift+alt+v",
  "command": "alt-editor.openFile",
  "args": { "name": "vim" },
  "when": "editorTextFocus"
}, {
  "key": "shift+alt+s",
  "command": "alt-editor.openFile",
  "args": { "name": "sublime" },
  "when": "editorTextFocus"
}]

Examples:

Visual Studio

Use the Visual Studio IDE as an alternative editor.

"alt-editor.name": "visualstudio"

Vim

Override the default arguments to use a single instance of the Vim editor and open files in tabs.

"alt-editor.name": "vim",
"alt-editor.args": "--servername Code --remote-tab-silent \"+call cursor({line}, {column})\" {filename}"

The Vim should be compiled with +clientserver flag. Please run the vim --version and check the output.

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