Vifm: Change file type assocation

Question

I've looked at the docs and still cannot figure out how to change a filetype to open with external editor. How can I make it so that pressing in vifm on a *.sql files for example will use sublime3 external app instead of vim? I've already tried adding filetype *.sql /opt/sublime_text_3/sublime_text to my vifmrc file but it is still using default vim.

Answer 1

Since patterns are not generally disjoint, the order in which :filetype commands are executed is important. You probably put filetype *.sql /opt/sublime_text_3 after filetype * ..., which catches everything and thus should be the last.

You can verify which application will be run for an sql file by running:

:filetype a.sql

A menu will pop-up showing list of applications vifm will try in top-down order.