Is it possible to open specific files with a key binding?

[michaelkoper]

I am the type of guy who doesn't want to leave the editor and I always have keybinding to open specific files, for example ~/Dropbox/notes/todo.md or ~/Dropbox/notes/short_term_memory.md where I can quickly drop things and close it again without losing flow.

The files are always outside my workspace.

I can't see anywhere how I can do this with Zed.

In Sublime Text I have the following settings that work great:

{ "keys": [",", "c", "c"], "command": "open_file", "args": {"file": "~/Dropbox/notes/coding-notes.md"} },
{ "keys": [",", "c", "s"], "command": "open_file", "args": {"file": "~/Dropbox/notes/short-term-memory.md"} },
{ "keys": [",", "c", "m"], "command": "open_file", "args": {"file": "~/Dropbox/notes/marketing.md"} },
{ "keys": [",", "c", "t"], "command": "open_file", "args": {"file": "~/Dropbox/notes/todo.md"} }

Somebody knows if this is possible with Zed?

[SomeoneToIgnore]

Not as elegant, but presumably doable with tasks: https://zed.dev/docs/tasks#custom-keybindings-for-tasks shows how to bind invoking a certain task by its name, then you can create a number of tasks doing zed /path/to/file and call them separately.

One caveat might be #17401 which suggests the files might not open in the correct window.

[michaelkoper]

Thanks @SomeoneToIgnore ! That worked out. 🙏

I still think the command to open a file would be a nice addition.

[SomeoneToIgnore]

There is a command for that, editor::OpenSelectedFilename it is not able to accept paths yet.
Would be a nice contribution.