How can I open a file from the status menu in a different editor

[stackmystack]

Hello, I know my question sounds crazy, but what I want is basically what I described in the title.

Cursor on a certain modified, or added file, I want to be able to hit enter, and make that open in a different editor.

1. Is this already supported, maybe through an env-var?
2. If not, which what I would expect, would you be open to a contribution of this sort.

Why?

Because someone is going to tell me how wrong I am and why would I want to leave neovim … well, I'm not on neovim anymore but I really, really, really, really, don't want to leave neogit (and I also left emacs very reluctantly because I wanted magit).

So now I have a special neogit config (see https://github.com/stackmystack/dot-files/blob/master/.config/neogit/init.lua) and a g alias that launches neovim with neogit only.

I added a hook that quits g when I press q, but g will also quit when I hit enter on a buffer. Ideally, I'd like to hit enter and for neogit to pick up my $EDITOR, and send the proper path, ideally configurable since not all editors (ehem, neogit for instance) would accept a path:line format, or maybe I'd want to pass certain flags …

[CKolkey]

hehe, I get it. I have doom emacs installed just for magit (shell alias: emacs -nw -f magit)

So I think the easiest way would be for you to overload the function here: https://github.com/NeogitOrg/neogit/blob/master/lua/neogit/buffers/status/actions.lua#L1092-L1111

so somewhere in your nvim config, you would do:

require("neogit.buffers.status.actions").n_goto_file = function(self)
  return function()
    local item = self.buffer.ui:get_item_under_cursor()

    -- Goto FILE
    if item and item.absolute_path then
      local cursor = translate_cursor_location(self, item)
      -- something here to open the file in your editor of choice
      return
    end

    -- Goto COMMIT
    local ref = self.buffer.ui:get_yankable_under_cursor()
    if ref then
      require("neogit.buffers.commit_view").new(ref):open()
    end
  end
end