[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Extending the function of "Open selected file" (#1959)

[VictorelPetrovich]

Geany has a function of opening files it can read, with right-click -> ""Open selected file", with a good (default) shortcut key `Ctrl+Shift+O`. Nicely, It understand relative addresses (i.e, you don't have to specify the full address).

Inspired by web URL generality (can be both local, and other-site resource), I suggest extending the above function, to become a general resource/address openner: 
so that in case it it's a resource that Geany cannot open by itself,  to trigger the appropriate program to open:
  * web addresses 
  * folders 
  * images 
  * others to come
(It does not have to be implemented all at once)

Design variants/ideas:
**A.** Allow specification, in Preferences, not only of a default browser, but of any other programs needed to open files in the list above
**B.** When asked to open something Geany cannot, to invoke the system's  "Open with..." dialog.

I know that there is a plugin that can open web links, and that the user can set up 1 custom "Context action". But these are not nearly as convenient as a single, universal command I'm suggesting above.


IMHO, it will be practical and useful daily for everyone. 
  




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