Using right-click "Open [thing]" menu does not work to open Markdown files with relative URLs

[johnmarkschofield]

Description of the bug

When I am editing a Markdown file and I right-click a link that points to a second Markdown file, and then select "Open [URL]," from the right-click menu, Sublime Text reports "The Application can't be opened -50"

In MacOS, I have associated the .md extension with Sublime Text (double-clicking an *.md file in the finder opens it in Sublime Text.)

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a Markdown file that contains links to other Markdown files, in the same folder or in child folders.
2. Right-click a markdown link to a local markdown file and select "Open [FILEPATH]"
3. Observe the pop-up message saying that "the application can't be opened."

If the file path is fully-qualified (starting at root) and you prefix it with the "file://" scheme, then and only then does it work. Relative paths, with or without "file://," do not work.

Example:

# This is doc1
## This section contains links to doc2
*doc1.md and doc2.md are in the same folder*

### This does not work
[Doc 2](doc2.md) BAD
[Doc 2](./doc2.md) BAD
[Doc 2](/Users/johnschofield/code/schof/test/doc2.md) BAD
[Doc 2](file://doc2.md) BAD

### This works
[Doc 2](file:///Users/johnschofield/code/schof/test/doc2.md) OK

Expected behavior

My expectation is that, in the situation above, after selecting the "Open [...]" menu option, on a link to a local file, Sublime Text would open that file for editing.

If the path to the Markdown file was incorrect, I would expect Sublime Text to tell me that it can not locate the file, rather than an error message that does not apply. (I'm not trying to open an application.)

Actual behavior

Sublime Text build number

4192

Operating system & version

MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1

(Linux) Desktop environment and/or window manager

n/a/

Additional information

I replicated this with no packages installed except for Package Control.

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