Customizing Godot Mono To Use Neovim

Setting A Custom Editor

I did not really like using the built in editor that comes with Godot, so I decided to see how I could set up Neovim to launch instead. I had a few customizations and I thought I would note them down here if I ever needed to reference them again.

We need to launch nvim with our preferred terminal and give it a custom title so we can find it in hyprland.

In Godot → Editor Settings → Text Editor → External, set:

Exec Path: /usr/bin/kitty

Exec Flags: –title “GodotEditor” -e nvim +{line} {file}

Setting Up Window Rules

I am using hyprland so I wanted it to launch on my second monitor, in a specific workspace. This required some custom window rules.

This will launch it where we require it, but it will steal focus.

windowrulev2 = workspace 7, monitor:1, title:^(GodotEditor)$

This will do the same, but it will not steal focus.

windowrulev2 = nofocus, workspace 7, monitor:1, title:^(GodotEditor)$