Support zed://ssh (#19970)

Conrad Irwin created 1 year ago

Closes: #15070

Release Notes:

- Added support for `zed://ssh/<connnection>/<path>`

Change summary

crates/zed/src/zed/open_listener.rs | 3 +++
docs/src/remote-development.md      | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Detailed changes

crates/zed/src/zed/open_listener.rs

@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ impl OpenRequest {
                 this.parse_file_path(file)
             } else if let Some(file) = url.strip_prefix("zed://file") {
                 this.parse_file_path(file)
+            } else if let Some(file) = url.strip_prefix("zed://ssh") {
+                let ssh_url = "ssh:/".to_string() + file;
+                this.parse_ssh_file_path(&ssh_url, cx)?
             } else if url.starts_with("ssh://") {
                 this.parse_ssh_file_path(&url, cx)?
             } else if let Some(request_path) = parse_zed_link(&url, cx) {

docs/src/remote-development.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ On your local machine, Zed runs its UI, talks to language models, uses Tree-sitt
 1. Once the Zed server is running, you will be prompted to choose a path to open on the remote server.
    > **Note:** Zed does not currently handle opening very large directories (for example, `/` or `~` that may have >100,000 files) very well. We are working on improving this, but suggest in the meantime opening only specific projects, or subfolders of very large mono-repos.
 
-For simple cases where you don't need any SSH arguments, you can run `zed ssh://[<user>@]<host>[:<port>]/<path>` to open a remote folder/file directly.
+For simple cases where you don't need any SSH arguments, you can run `zed ssh://[<user>@]<host>[:<port>]/<path>` to open a remote folder/file directly. If you'd like to hotlink into an SSH project, use a link of the format: `zed://ssh/[<user>@]<host>[:<port>]/<path>`.
 
 ## Supported platforms