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How can I get a link to be clickable in PlainText in Textmate. Currently it gets underlined, but is not clickable.

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So you can create the link but it will not do the desired behaviour? – ricbax Dec 5 '09 at 13:53
If I type b.com it is a link, but there is no way to navigate to it. I wish to navigate to it from Textmate. – Yar Dec 7 '09 at 12:10

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Position cursor on url and press return (not enter on mac book it is fn + enter). This will work only on links that are detected ant therefore highlighted (like http://b.com, it won't work for simple b.com)

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Really? I'm going to check this right now. – Yar Jun 28 '10 at 17:25
Friggin' genius, thanks @tig!!! – Yar Jun 28 '10 at 17:25
Great solution! – fideli Jun 28 '10 at 22:01
It's actually bound to enter ( fn-↩ on keyboards with no dedicated enter key). urls are handled by an injection grammar from hyperlink helper. – tim Mar 26 at 23:21
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The following answer relies on OS X 10.6 and its new and improved Services feature.

To open URLs from TextMate all you need is a couple keyboard shortcuts. If your cursor is anywhere within the URL or at the beginning (not at the end), you can select the whole URL by going to Edit -> Select -> Current Scope or using the keyboard shortcut ⌃⌥B. Then, in the TextMate -> Services menu, click Open URL in the Internet section. You can set a global keyboard shortcut for this by going to the Services Preference Pane and typing in a shortcut for the Open URL service. I use ⌃⌘L.

Therefore, to very quickly open a URL from TextMate, place your cursor in the URL, type ⌃⌥B and ⌃⌘L. That might even be faster than clicking it if it were clickable.

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Thanks Fideli, when I get 10.6 up and running (tempted to try today, so if I never come back it means my computer caught fire) I'll give this a shot and mark it best answer if it works. – Yar Dec 15 '09 at 14:32
So did it work? – fideli Dec 30 '09 at 7:09
please check the new best answer that just came in. Very cool. – Yar Jun 28 '10 at 17:26
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Have a look here: 21.2 URL Scheme (HTML) (mid page)

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Thanks Ric, that's not relevant (it's the opposite). – Yar Dec 5 '09 at 13:22

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