Hyperlinked_grep and vim/neovim

[dpetka2001]

Is there a way to open the hyperlinks from the result of hyperlinked_grep in an already existing vim/neovim
opened instance? Currently it opens immediately in the current kitty window, so if you want to run hyperlinked_grep
again you must do so in a new window every time (since the window always gets consumed from clicking on the hyperlink).
I would like to be able to maintain only a single vim/neovim instance with open buffers from the hyperlinks if it is possible at all.

[kovidgoyal]

You can run any command you like when clicking a hyperlink, see https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/open_actions/ As for how to open it in an existing editor instance, that will depend on whatever IPC support your editor provides. Figure out if the editor has some way to run a command and have it open a file in it. And run that command in your open-actions.conf

[trygveaa]

Vim supports this with the --servername argument. Start vim where you want the file opened with vim --servername <server_name> and configure the hyperlink command to be vim --servername <server_name> --remote ${FILE_PATH}.

Your vim will have to be compiled with +clientserver.

[dpetka2001]

I will try with --servername. Thank you for your help.

[dpetka2001]

So for anyone wondering about the same situation. Neovim does not support +cmd after --remote. It considers every argument given as part of the files you want to open. So for example, it would open 2 files (one named +line_number and the other file_path). In order to come around this problem I installed neovim-remote, which has as an executable nvr. So I configured the hyperlink command to use nvr instead of nvim and everything works like a charm. It opens the file at the exact line number provided by the fragment of hyperlinks at the Neovim instance that is already opened as a server. Again thank you all for the initial help you provided to me to solve this problem.