Prevent opening files in terminal buffers

[tuxflo]

Hi! At first thanks for nvr it helped me a lot to get our of nested neovim sessions... My current workflow for a react app looks like that:

• single neovim instance (started with NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS) with source code files
• split terminal (using neoterm) with build and watch tool running (yarn start)

The tool Create React App which is used for the React project is able to open up the editor directly from a browser tab if an error occurs. With setting the environment variable REACT_EDITOR="nvr -l" this works as expected: if the term split was focused it switches the window (-l flag) and opens the file. But if the term split is not focused (which is more often the case) it openes the file in the term split.

So basically the question is: is there a way to tell nvr it shouldn't open files inside terminal buffers?

[mhinz]

At first thanks for nvr it helped me a lot to get our of nested neovim sessions...

Thanks. :)

Okay, the issue is that -l (which really is just a shortcut for -cc 'wincmd p'), is used unconditionally here. Try this instead:

export REACT_EDITOR="nvr -cc 'if &buftype ==# \"terminal\" | wincmd p | endif'"

[mhinz]

It's working interactively from the shell, so it should work for REACT_EDITOR as well. Closing. :)

[tuxflo]

Sorry for the late reply! Yes, the workaround works, but one has to add the parameters to the lauchEditor.js file of the Create React App react-dev-utils. Thanks again for nvr and helping :+1:

[tuxflo]

Just in case somebody ends up here while searching for a solution when developing a Create React App, I submitted a PR to the CRA repo to add nvr to the list of editors.