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URL Highlighter plugin

Detect URLs in any document, highlight them as clickable links, and open the one under the caret. Detection is live — links stay highlighted as you type and edit.

Where to find it

Command Shortcut What it does
View ▸ Highlight URLs Toggles URL highlighting on/off; the choice is remembered.
Edit ▸ Open URL Under Caret Ctrl+Alt+L Opens the link the caret is inside, in your default browser.

When highlighting is on, URLs are underlined and show a hand cursor on hover; you can also Ctrl+click or double-click a link to open it.

Per-project setting

A project can override the global toggle for its own files via .editorconfig:

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mte.org.mte.url.enabled = false

This disables URL highlighting for files in that project regardless of the global View ▸ Highlight URLs state (and is itself gated by the editor's Apply .editorconfig settings option).

Highlighting pauses under a syntax colorizer

While a file is syntax-coloured, the colorizer owns the styling, so the underline is not painted — but Open URL Under Caret still works by scanning the text around the caret.