Open multiple files

[D1mon]

Add files in "Staging area" then "open_stay".
In console this command like: mpv video1.mp4 video2.mp4

[evanescente-ondine]

Hi, I think it warrants its own issue.
It is impossible to open a file in the background.
I tried editing the command in the .desktop file corresponding to the application in everyway possible: no result. I close broot, it closes the application.
I can't edit handlr, it uses .desktop files.
I tried the same with broot.hjson: no result whatever either. Including with commands that do call background jobs in terminals.

[piroot01]

I solved it so that I wrote a simple shell script nvim_open.

#!/bin/sh

st -ce nvim "$1" &>/dev/null &
broot "$1"

And in conf.hjson

    {
        invocation: edit
        key: enter
        external: "nvim_open {file}"
        leave_broot: true
        apply_to: file
    }

[Canop]

What's st here ? The "simple terminal" ?

[piroot01]

yes, you could use another one, if you want

[evanescente-ondine]

No variation on "drm@DasReich ~> foot "handlr open /home/drm/2017\ High-Fat\ D
iet\ and\ Female\ Fertility\ .pdf" works, I usually have to put fish or sh first, and here the command is too long/complicated and I can't make it work. Beside foot works differently because it's not the first time my terminal and/or shell behaves in an annoying way.
I think a general solution is needed, more than a work-around... the normal syntax (with & etc) put in hjson.conf should ideally work as if executing from the shell.
Can someone try that snippet with fish and foot ?