[Feature Request] Open containing folder in File Manager

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, shell
Domain
desktop

Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start by locating the file-tab context-menu handling in Xed and checking how external commands are launched; the issue suggests xdg-open for Linux. Done means a file tab offers an “Open in File Manager” action that opens its containing folder in the default file manager.

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Description

It would be nice to be able to Right Click on a file tab and choose "Open in File Manager" from the menu to open a the containing folder of that file in the default file manager. (maybe using xdg-open which seems to be the way to open the default file manager in Linux).

I might be interested in programing such a feature myself, but I don't know what the process is for making contributions to Xed.

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