xdg-open works as intended, but...

[kbuckleys]

When I open files from within recursivebrowser, the files open fine except for MIME text documents. Basically anything that I typically open with nvim simply doesn't open unless I set the recursivebrowser's command to kitty -e nvim. However, doing so will make recursivebrowser open every file in nvim regardless of its type.

Maybe I have something messed up on my end, but if anyone has an idea what I'm supposed to do, I'd be ever grateful.

[DaveDavenport]

you can tell xdg-open to use nvim to open text documents. The Archlinux wiki has decent documentation on how to do this.

I think this is the relevant section of the documentation: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xdg-utils#xdg-mime

[kbuckleys]

Thank you.

[DaveDavenport]

Hopefully it works. I think it should if there is a nvim desktop file.

[kbuckleys]

Oh yeah, it works great. I just had to make a desktop file as you said, and update xdg-mime with a command: xdg-mime default nvim.desktop text/plain

Thanks a lot.