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Re: Is there an elegant way to get the URL (file:/// or http://) of the currently open documentation page?
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Re: Is there an elegant way to get the URL (file:/// or http://) of the currently open documentation page?


  • Subject: Re: Is there an elegant way to get the URL (file:/// or http://) of the currently open documentation page?
  • From: "Jonathan del Strother" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:07:12 +0100

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Diop Mercer <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi. In comments in my code, I often would like to paste the URL of
> some pertinent piece of the Cocoa documentation.  The Xcode
> documentation browser itself is just a web browser.
>
> Unfortunately when I control-click in the documentation browser ,
> there's no "Copy URL" function. And there's of course no Address entry
> area in the toolbar to grab the current URL from.
>
> I can right-click and choose to "Open Page in Browser", open the
> current page in Safari, and finally copy the URL from there, but
> that's clunky, frankly.
>
> Is there an elegant way to get the URL (file:/// or http://) of the
> currently open documentation page?
>


You could drag the proxy icon at the top of the window into a text
view.  Sadly it won't include the anchor, though, so that'll open the
page but not jump to the relevant section.
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