tui: fully working spawner

internal/tui/spawner.go

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package tui
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+
+	tea "github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea"
+)
+
+type commandFinishedMsg struct{ err error }
+
+func doSpawn(url string) (tea.Cmd, error) {
+	spawner, err := getSpawner()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	cmd := exec.Command(spawner, url)
+	// if err = cmd.Start(); err != nil {
+	// 	return nil, err
+	// }
+	// _, err = cmd.Process.Wait()
+	// if err != nil {
+	// 	return nil, err
+	// }
+	return tea.ExecProcess(cmd, func(err error) tea.Msg {
+		return commandFinishedMsg{err}
+	}), nil
+
+}
+
+// getSpawner returns the absolute path of the binary handles spawing
+func getSpawner() (string, error) {
+	spawner := os.Getenv("SPAWNER")
+	if spawner == "" {
+		spawner = "xdg-open"
+	}
+
+	binary, err := exec.LookPath(spawner)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return binary, nil
+}

internal/tui/tui.go

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package tui
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
-	"os/exec"
 
 	"github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles/key"
 	"github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles/list"
@@ -113,15 +112,11 @@ func (m Model) Update(msg tea.Msg) (Model, tea.Cmd) {
 			case key.Matches(msg, DefaultKeyMap.LinksOpen):
 				i, ok := m.list.SelectedItem().(item)
 				if ok {
-					binary, lookErr := exec.LookPath("weblauncher")
-					if lookErr != nil {
-						panic(lookErr)
-					}
-					cmd := exec.Command(binary, string(i))
-					err := cmd.Start()
+					cmd, err := doSpawn(string(i))
 					if err != nil {
 						panic(err)
 					}
+					return m, cmd
 				}
 			}
 		} else {