Using vim, I use :term to open the terminal emulator. After cd /path/to/project within the terminal emulator, I have a file called foo.txt. If I did vim foo.txt to open it as I would in a normal terminal, it would open vim within vim which causes a variety of issues. I see two potential solutions:
Does anyone have tips on either solution?
Inside Vim's builtin terminal, do
vim --remote foo.txt
This assume that your Vim was compiled with the +clientserver option. You can check with :version or :echo has('clientserver').
servername like vim --servername $VIM_SERVERNAME --remote foo.txt.
vim --server $NVIM --remote foo.txt; --remote should be after all optionsvim --remote works on vim, but neovim compiles without clientserver. neovim-remote seems to be an alternative for neovim.
You have a couple of options.
One would be to get your shell to print the full path of the file that you would like to edit (for example, by using bash's realpath ./<file_to_edit_goes_here> command), then exit insert mode, place your cursor over the filepath that was printed, and use gf to open the filepath under the cursor (see :help gf).
Alternatively, if you are using Neovim, I've written a plugin called nvim-unception to open files without nesting Neovim sessions by using Neovim 0.7's built-in RPC functionality.
With Neovim, this seems to work too
mvim() {
local fnames_realpath=()
local fnames=( "$@" )
for fname in "${fnames[@]}"; do
# echo "$fname"
local fname_realpath=$(realpath "$fname")
# echo "$fname_realpath"
fnames_realpath+=("$fname_realpath")
done
if pgrep nvim >/dev/null 2>&1; then
for fname_realpath in "${fnames_realpath[@]}"; do
nvim --server $NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS --remote-send "<C-\><C-N>:tabfirst | e $fname_realpath<CR>"
done
fi
if ! pgrep nvim >/dev/null 2>&1; then
rm -f "$NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS"
nvim --listen $NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS "${fnames_realpath[@]}"
fi
}
Updated to handle white spaces in the paths and multiple file names, including file names with escaped white spaces.
<C-w><S-n>) and open it