How to hide extra terminal window when OpenConfigEditor called?

[xpe]

My hope is hide the extra terminal window when OpenConfigEditor calls my custom editor (in this case, Zed).

Here is a quick screenshot showing what I see:

Note: I've made the windows smaller for clarity ("What is this? A terminal for Ants? How can we expected to render output from commands if they can't even fit inside the window!" -Zoolander)

config.toml

env-vars = ["XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/Users/thisguy/.config"]

[editor]
program = "/usr/local/bin/zed"
args = ["--wait"]

# Navigation
# "hide-if-single" - Hide navigation UI if is single.
[navigation]
open-config-with-split = false
# this did not solve my issue: hide-if-single = true

[shell]
program = "/usr/local/bin/nu"
args = ["--login"]

[TheusHen]

Hi!

I think the important detail here is that hide-if-single is unrelated to the extra window. It only hides the navigation UI when there is a single panel; it does not control window creation.

For a GUI editor such as Zed on macOS, you can avoid using the zed --wait CLI as the editor command and launch the application directly through macOS' open command instead.

For example:

[editor]
program = "/usr/bin/open"
args = ["-a", "Zed"]

Rio will append the configuration file path to the command, effectively resulting in:

open -a Zed ~/.config/rio/config.toml

This is preferable for a GUI editor because open hands the file to the existing Zed application instead of keeping a terminal-oriented editor process attached to the Rio PTY.

The current documentation confirms that OpenConfigEditor simply executes the configured editor with the Rio configuration path, and that args are supported for this purpose.

Also, the --wait argument is specifically useful when you want the command-line client to remain attached until the editor exits; for Zed, that is not necessary when the goal is simply to open the configuration file.

So I'd try removing --wait first, or preferably use /usr/bin/open -a Zed as above.

Cheers!