atom-pathspec

A utility library for Atom for resolving relative links into special folders such as the installation directory or the user's home directory. This uses a special "pseudo drive" prefix on the directory to translate into an absolute path.

Prefix	Location
application:	The directory the application is installed into.
home:	The current user's home directory.
~	Same as home:.
config:	The configuration folder.
desktop:	The user's desktop.
documents:	The user's documents (My Documents) folder.
downloads:	The user's download folder.
project:	Only used with getProjectPath(), gets the project root relative to the given buffer.

The above prefixes are case-insensitive and strip out dashes so APPDATA:, appdata: and app-data: all resolve to the application data directory. This is to make it more tolerant toward non-technical users entering data.

Any leading slashes (/) after the colon (or ~) will be stripped off and the remaining path will be treated as a file relative to that location. For example, on Unix, home:etc/dictionaries would resolve to $HOME/etc/dictionaries. home:/etc/dictionaries and home://etc/dictionaries resolve to the same path.

Absolute paths are passed in. If a relative path is given, either by prefixing with a ./ or not having a leading slash or drive, then relatively to the current working drive will be used.

API

getPath(spec) ⇒ string

Returns an absolute path from the given spec.

Param	Type	Description
spec	string	A path specifier which may be an absolute, pseudo-drive, or relative path.