Spawning `$EDITOR` gives an error on windows+msys2/zsh

[doronbehar]

Hi,

I'm using lf on msys2, with the mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-lf package, and msys2/zsh. My $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lf/lfrc has:

set shell zsh
# Do as explained here: https://github.com/gokcehan/lf/wiki/Tips#split-words-by-default-in-zsh
set shellopts '-e:--shwordsplit'
# I use lf also on Windows msys2, and this has to be used with the above shell.
set shellflag "-c"

And I get this error when I press e to spawn an editor:

zsh:fg:1: no job control in this shell.

Which makes sense I guess on this system, but I am not sure I understand why job control is needed, and how lf exactly requires it. I tried as a workaround to use nvim-qt.exe with:

map e !nvim-qt<space>$f<enter>

And got:

zsh:1: parse error near `>'

And with:

map e &nvim-qt<space>$f<enter>

I got nothing opened...

[CatsDeservePets]

First things first: I don't have experience with msys2. Are you using the Windows or Linux version of lf?

I see you are using <space> and <enter> in your map command. This is not necessary.
What happens if you use the following: map e $nvim-qt "$f"?

[doronbehar]

First things first: I don't have experience with msys2. Are you using the Windows or Linux version of lf?

I installed lf with:

pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-lf

Which is built with this expression.

What happens if you use the following: map e $nvim-qt "$f"?

Launches fine! Still not ideal though - I wish I could stay in the same terminal and not open a new window.

[CatsDeservePets]

Launches fine! Still not ideal though - I wish I could stay in the same terminal and not open a new window.

I remember having problems like this with Windows in general when executing .py or .bat scripts and stuff like that. Perhaps someone with more knowledge about Windows can help us here.

I will move this to the discussions as we are now talking about configuration rather than bugs inside lf.