To make crabcode feel more seamless with your editor-of-choice, here's what you can do.

#Put path clicks where you already edit

You'll set editor.open to integrate with your editor. See Editor config for placeholders.

• Nothing set: copies path:line:column in WezTerm, Ghostty, and other standalone terminals.
• Terminal IDEs (Neovim or Helix): open a new multiplexer tab, or a new WezTerm / Ghostty window. Clicks cannot talk to a parent Helix.
• GUI IDEs (Zed, VS Code, Cursor): auto-detected in their terminals and just open. Image placeholders use images.openWith.

ACP-compatible editors can also host crabcode as a subprocess. That is a different integration: ACP.

{pathname} is shell-quoted, so hx -- {pathname}:{line}:{column} stays one path even with spaces.

#WezTerm and Ghostty

Standalone terminals have no Helix remote. Open a new tab or window instead of copying.

#WezTerm

wezterm cli spawn opens a tab in the current window (WEZTERM_PANE must be set):

{
  "editor": {
    // Helix
    "open": "wezterm cli spawn -- hx -- {pathname}:{line}:{column}",
    // Neovim
    "open": "wezterm cli spawn -- nvim +{line} -- {pathname}",
  },
}

Add --new-window if you want a separate window.

#Ghostty

On macOS, Ghostty has no CLI to add a tab to the current window. open -na starts a new Ghostty window:

{
  "editor": {
    // Helix
    "open": "open -na Ghostty.app --args -e hx -- {pathname}:{line}:{column}",
    // Neovim
    "open": "open -na Ghostty.app --args -e nvim +{line} -- {pathname}",
  },
}

On Linux, use ghostty -e hx -- {pathname}:{line}:{column} instead.

#Multiplexers

Each click creates a new tab and runs Helix or Neovim there. You do not need a pane named hx.

#Herdr (recommended)

Needs jq. Crabcode already reports agent status when HERDR_PANE_ID is set.

{
  "editor": {
    // Helix
    "open": "herdr pane run \"$(herdr tab create --focus --label hx | jq -r .result.root_pane.pane_id)\" hx -- {pathname}:{line}:{column}",
    // Neovim
    "open": "herdr pane run \"$(herdr tab create --focus --label nvim | jq -r .result.root_pane.pane_id)\" nvim +{line} -- {pathname}",
  },
}

#tmux

{
  "editor": {
    // Helix
    "open": "tmux new-window -n hx -- hx -- {pathname}:{line}:{column}",
    // Neovim
    "open": "tmux new-window -n nvim -- nvim +{line} -- {pathname}",
  },
}

#Zellij

{
  "editor": {
    // Helix
    "open": "zellij action new-tab --name hx && zellij action write-chars \"hx -- {pathname_raw}:{line}:{column}\" && zellij action write 13",
    // Neovim
    "open": "zellij action new-tab --name nvim && zellij action write-chars \"nvim +{line} -- {pathname_raw}\" && zellij action write 13",
  },
}

write 13 is Enter. Both panes must be in the same Zellij session so zellij action reaches it.

#VS Code, Zed, Cursor

When crabcode runs in a Zed, VS Code, or Cursor integrated terminal, path clicks already open in that window. You do not need editor.open unless you want to pin the command.

Default (no editor key): detect Zed / Cursor / VS Code, open path:line:column, otherwise copy.

{
  // Zed
  "editor": "zed -- {location}",
  // VS Code
  "editor": "code --reuse-window --goto -- {location}",
  // Cursor
  "editor": "cursor --reuse-window --goto -- {location}",
}

Image placeholders use images.openWith (auto, system, editor, or a custom command).

#Custom editor

editor.open is just a shell command. Any tool with CLI args works: a markdown previewer, a GUI you launch with open -a, a one-off script.

{
  "editor": {
    "open": "my-markdown-editor {pathname}",
  },
}

Placeholders are listed in Editor config.