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The "ctrl+click" feature allows me to write URIs into many files (e.g. plain text) and then I can open the URIs by hovering over them with the mouse, pushing ctrl and clicking. This works fine in my eclipse e.g. for http://www.example.com file://c:\foo.txt (I'm on windows) But, what I actually want to do is, I want to reference a file in the same directory as the file that contains the reference, or another relative path link. So I have e.g. c: +MyWorkspace +source.txt +dest.txt And I want to write "something" into source.txt that will allow me to navigate to dest.txt. That "something" should be relative, so if I put both files into some revision control and get them out on another machine, links should still work. I would like Eclipse to resolve the given path against the containing document. Some discussion of this has already happened here: https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=1097013&goto=1801075&#msg_1801075
One thought I had is that providing support for file:<relative-path> would be rather ugly because it's questionable whether that's a sensible/meaningful URI. But perhaps support for ./<relative-path> would be more sensible to try to support, because it limits the applicability to strings that start with ./ and in terms of a URI ., ./., ././. all mean the same thing, i.e., a reference to the resource itself, and from there it can be extended with any relative path, including another reference to the resource itself.
