Better Open With Defaults! ❤️

[VioletJewel]

What system are you running Yazi on?

Linux X11

What terminal are you running Yazi in?

st

yazi --debug output

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Describe the question

Hi. Thanks for this fast file browser for the terminal. It's really awesome. There is one thing that annoys me very often after using yazi basically daily for months: Open With needs revision to supply better defaults.

This is somewhat a follow up to #1071

1. The default for o or Return is to open the selected file(s) in the editor. So, why is the first option to open it with $EDITOR? The reason I am inside of this very menu with Shift+o or Shift+Return is because I don't want to open it with $EDITOR.
2. I don't understand the second option either. Reveal opens another $TERM in linux. I'm sure it opens the file browser or whatever on os x / windows, but can't ppl just add a custom command for that? On linux in particular there's no good way to determine what the default file browser is, and so this should be a custom key probably. This option is fine probably, but I just don't understand as a linux user.
3. Most importantly: There is nothing that I need from this menu. I need to Open the file With another program that is not $EDITOR or in another file browser ................

I am not going to add a program to my config every time I need to open the selected file(s) in a program a few times. Maybe I need to try a browser a few times. Maybe I want to open it in one thing quickly. typing "$@" is getting on my nerves. I mistype it every time, and it's very awkward. I do it a lot. This is a file browser so it should be able to readily open a file / some files in a program. It's awesome that there is a lot of flexibility with ; and : but I need easier access to Open With things.

Therefore, please please please make the first open open some sort of prompt (maybe even allow it to complete executables in $PATH ... dmenu- or rofi- or fzf-like) and then open the selected file(s) / $0 like ;{the-prompt} "$@" automagically.

This would be a significant quality of life improvement, and yet I am very grateful for all of the wonderful features contained within this excellent piece of software.
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[VioletJewel]

I did end up adding this to my [opener] rules:

all = [
  ...
  { run = '$(dmenu_path | dmenu -p "Open With:" -w "$(xdo id)") "$@"', desc = "launcher  (dmenu)", orphan = true },
  ...
]

It works pretty well. Maybe something like this can be made in rust and made as a default so everyone can enjoy it.

[sxyazi]

https://github.com/Ape/open-with-cmd.yazi is exactly what you're looking for.

BTW, you can find more awesome plugins at https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/resources and https://github.com/AnirudhG07/awesome-yazi

[VioletJewel]

Thanks so much! I thought there had to be a way. I couldn't find these resources so thank you so much!