Open directory with default application

[lescx]

It would be cool if I would be able to open a directory (e.g. this superfile/ repository) in my $EDITOR. What do you think about this?

If this is something that is going to be implemented, we need to think about how to handle terminal based editors, i.e. should we move back to spf after closing the editor?

[AnshumanNeon]

This is a nice suggestion. I can try to implement this. Shouldn't really be hard.
I think currently superfile can support vim, neovim, nano and emacs
What are your thoughts on this?

[lescx]

There are already a few OS specific ways we can check for the default editor.
Of course there are $EDITOR (and $VISUAL which isn't important in this context) we can check for. No need to only rely on the mentioned ones - I do not have vim, neovim, nano or emacs installed on my system for example.

The most simple and error-prone method: A user can define $EDITOR to be for example EDITOR=flatpak run com.visualstudio.code to also open graphical editors (or, more generally a default application - there might be people who want to open e.g. Unreal Engine).

A better way would be to use the linux-specific $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mimeapps.list where a user can define an application for the inode/directory MIME type. GNOME documentation

macOS uses Uniform Type Identifiers for this.

[yorukot]

@lescx update this feature in https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile/tree/open-with-editor

[yorukot]

release in release in https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile/releases/tag/v1.1.1