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Support --open with -r

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the CLI handling for -r and --open, then review how file opening is routed when a local code-server instance is already running. Done means that using -r with --open in the local-editor case opens the requested file and launches the browser, while preserving the existing behavior described in the issue.

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Description

enhancement

We can open files in a running instance of code-server with -r (well technically -r is optional if code-server is already running) but it might be nice to also support --open to automatically launch the browser as well.

Only works if you are using code-server as a local editor but it would let you do things like implement "open with" without having to open the browser window ahead of time.

See https://github.com/coder/code-server/discussions/6224

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