Open to Offset plugin

Developers: Plugin & API
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I had a need to open a file to a specific offset (absolute position) via an external command. Mainly for an Alfred workflow I’m working on that leverages the Omnisearch API. I scratched my own itch and wrote this simple plugin:

Right now there are no settings, all it does is register the protocol handler obsidian://open-to-offset.

Would love any tips or critiques from the community before I attempt to submit this officially to the community plugin registry.

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Is there a better or more correct method than this.app.workspace.openLinkText() to open a note to a specific location?

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I think what you are looking for has been done in the omnisearch plugin here: obsidian-omnisearch/src/tools/notes.ts at c34503f1cd89a5e6bd1813cc608b698ced890189 · scambier/obsidian-omnisearch · GitHub

I have opened a feature request in advanced-uri to add it Open file to specific offset · Issue #181 · Vinzent03/obsidian-advanced-uri · GitHub

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Also, I have been using your plugin and it works great. Do you think it would be possible to add an option to pass in a word and select that word from the offset? So if I pass in offset 10 and word “foo” then it would start at offset 10 look for the first instance of the word “foo” and highlight it.

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That should be possible but I have been watching the Advanced URI repo and I saw that Vinzent added an open to offset function URI to his plugin (not published yet). I will see if I can make the feature you’re asking for but my goal for the plugin was just a temporary stopgap until Adv. URI supported it natively.

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I see he has added the ability to go to a col number in feat: set cursor to column in line · Vinzent03/obsidian-advanced-uri@414277d · GitHub, but ideally we would be able to go to an offset, as we only get the offset back from omnisearch, though I suppose with some introspection on the file you could get the line/col from that.

I’ll keep watching the repo too.

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Advanced URI 1.42 was just released, supporting the new column parameter. But, I tested it and it’s relative to the line only. So for example in a 500-character note, passing ?column=410 won’t work.

I’ll work on seeing if I can enhance my plugin to support the feature you asked for @wayneh. Need to find some time.

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Just updating this, Advanced URI does support an offset= param now which works well. I am still hoping a rainy day comes when I can add the “open from offset with selectioin” command.

obsidian://adv-uri?filepath=Foo&offset=1234