Sublime Text 3 Microsoft Edge Build System

Question

so normally you can use the following to create a Build System:

{
    "cmd": ["C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe","$file"]
}

With edge, however, you can't simply start it up by double clicking the .exe found at the path

C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe

Which means this doesn't work (i tried this):

{
    "cmd": ["C:\\Windows\\SystemApps\\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\\MicrosoftEdge.exe","$file"]
}

Is there a way to create a Sublime Text Build System so that when you hit Ctrl+B the file opens up in Microsoft Edge?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

0

The following should work (from here):

{
    "cmd": ["start microsoft-edge:file:///$file"]
}

Unfortunately I don't have Windows 10 handy to test this, but from the above link and other Google results this should be the way to go.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

Community

answered Sep 05 '15 at 18:30

MattDMo

Command works in a command prompt but not when i run it from sublime. get the following error: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified [cmd: ['start microsoft-edge:D:\\Dev\\Js\\Example\\eventHandler.html']] – David Torrey Sep 05 '15 at 18:40
@DavidTorrey try my edit above - maybe you need to include the `file:///` protocol for a local file... – MattDMo Sep 05 '15 at 18:44
no dice, doesn't even work if i try to point it to a website instead of a file – David Torrey Sep 05 '15 at 18:46
for some reason it's having an issue finding microsoft-edge – David Torrey Sep 05 '15 at 18:47
@DavidTorrey how about changing `"cmd"` to `"shell_cmd"`. Does that help? – MattDMo Sep 05 '15 at 18:49
doesn't even run in that case. I'm playing around with the actual .exe to see if i can't get it to do something. makes no sense to me they'd have an exe i can't execute but hey, what do I know – David Torrey Sep 05 '15 at 18:51
had to run it as a parameter of explorer.exe – David Torrey Sep 05 '15 at 19:03

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '15 at 18:57

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figured it out finally:

{
    "cmd": ["explorer.exe", "microsoft-edge:$file"]
}

answered Sep 05 '15 at 18:57

David Torrey

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