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On Mac OS, Enter invokes Xcode. How to get it to use vim for text files.


By default the standard file opening provided by the system is used but you can override it: https://dystroy.org/broot/documentation/tricks/#open-files-w...


Probably it's using the default file handler, i.e. whatever would open the file if double-clicked in the Finder.




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