i started using micro and its pretty great. but when i try to open the terminal within the editor
ctl+e
it seems to just open a whole new terminal window with no context within my document.
anybody got ideas?
- Confetti Camouflage ( @Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social ) English10•14 days ago
Unbind ctrl+e from your window manager / terminal emulator. The shortcut is never reaching Micro at all.
that was exactly it! thank you!
i’ll try that
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 2•14 days ago
What is the command executing when you press this shortcut? Usually you need to use an option with the terminal to execute a command. Most terminals use the option
-e COMMAND
, but it can be different for a few terminal apps. In example my terminal is “Konsole” and to open a new terminal with “Vim”, I need to use this command:konsole -e nvim
. Or when I want to use arguments for vim itself, I can do it like thiskonsole -e "vim -R $HOME/Downloads/test.txt"
as an example.So find out how to do this with your terminal and use that as a command for your
ctrl-e
shortcut.when i edit a file i will put
micro test.txt
sudo can be applied after. i should be able to open a terminal within the editor and have it appear on the bottom. I should be able to use it to change the settings or style of the micro editor, but it just opens up a whole new instance of my terminal. (which is fish btw)
i’ll look and see if i have any arguments to add.or maybe edit the config?- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 3•14 days ago
I’m a bit confused. Your terminal is not Fish. Fish is a shell like Bash, which interprets the commands. Terminal is the window application. Based on the linked image, I assume you have Kitty as your terminal? And you want to open a terminal within your editor using shortcut
Ctrl-e
?If so, then I don’t know about this. I thought you want to run a terminal with micro as the editor from outside of micro, not after you started micro. I might have completely missed your point here then.
- Confetti Camouflage ( @Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social ) English2•14 days ago
They want to get to the equivalent of vim’s :
sorry, fish is shell, terminal is kitty. you are correct.