Close tab/window upon opening file

[baldwindavid]

Thanks so much for this project; this is really impressive!

I'm trying to approximate a workflow similar to vim's netrw and almost there with Yazi in Zed. From within a pane I have a keybinding that opens a new Zed tab/terminal with Yazi at the current file's location. I can then open a file from Yazi and that file opens a new tab with the file in Zed. This is all perfect except that the tab that contains Yazi is now still open. In practice I end up with a bunch of extra tabs with Yazi open at various places and have to continually cleanup.

What I'd like is that when I open a file from Yazi that it then is able to close that tab with Yazi (not just exit Yazi, but close the tab it's within). That would be cmd-w in Zed. So I guess I'm asking if there is a generalized way to simulate those keypresses from Yazi config or whether that would need some sort of orchestration from Zed.

[sxyazi]

Hi, I'm not familiar with Zed. I'd like to know how you integrated Yazi with it (if I understand correctly), like by starting Yazi through yazi --chooser-file?

[baldwindavid]

Hi @sxyazi . Zed has tabs and you can open a terminal tab, which is technically Alacritty under the hood (builtin to Zed). So I have a keyboard shortcut that opens a new terminal tab, sends the text ya path/to/file.ext, and sends enter. From there, it's just typical yazi usage. I can quit yazi and I'm in a regular terminal/tab.

As an aside, mine is just ya because of the tip from the docs where my .zshrc has...

# yazi file manager
function ya() {
	local tmp="$(mktemp -t "yazi-cwd.XXXXX")"
	yazi "$@" --cwd-file="$tmp"
	if cwd="$(cat -- "$tmp")" && [ -n "$cwd" ] && [ "$cwd" != "$PWD" ]; then
		cd -- "$cwd"
	fi
	rm -f -- "$tmp"
}

Let me know if there's further information that would be helpful to know. Thanks!

[sxyazi]

I think simply adding an exit for ya should achieve the functionality you described, like this:

- function ya() {
+ function ya_zed() {
	local tmp="$(mktemp -t "yazi-cwd.XXXXX")"
	yazi "$@" --cwd-file="$tmp"
	if cwd="$(cat -- "$tmp")" && [ -n "$cwd" ] && [ "$cwd" != "$PWD" ]; then
		cd -- "$cwd"
	fi
	rm -f -- "$tmp"
+       exit
}

Then, in Zed, send ya_zed instead of ya, which will execute exit to close the terminal tab when Yazi exits.

[baldwindavid]

Oh, that's very close. That closes the tab when pressing q, which is a nice behavior. However, the main behavior I'm going for is closing that tab upon opening a file so that I don't end up with a bunch of extra tabs.

I've added that ya_zed and then naively tried to do that via this keymap...

    { on = [
        "o",
    ], run = [
        "open",
        "quit",
    ], desc = "Open the selected files and quit" },

When I open a file that tab with yazi stays there. If I go back to that tab I see a confirmation to close...

I don't see an option to automatically confirm close for quit, but perhaps there is one.

[sxyazi]

Try this:

function yazi_zed() {
	local tmp="$(mktemp -t "yazi-chooser.XXXXX")"
	yazi "$@" --chooser-file="$tmp"

	local opened_file="$(cat -- "$tmp" | head -n 1)"
	zed -- "$opened_file"

	rm -f -- "$tmp"
	exit
}

You may need to adjust the command parameters for zed.

[baldwindavid]

Yes, it works! Thank you so much. Yazi within Zed is pretty great and more powerful than any builtin extension ever would be.

[baldwindavid]

@sxyazi Here is a screen recording of yazi working smoothly within zed... zed-industries/zed#9067 (comment)
Thanks again for your help!

[sxyazi]

Thanks for sharing, it looks so COOL!