I am using vim as an editor for LaTeX and I use bib-files for my citations. I want to write a function with which vim opens the currently used bib-file in a terminal which itself runs vim on the .bib-file and lets me edit it.

In the bash script I am using the line

st -t bibfile_edit_terminal_floating -e nvim $BIBFILE_PATH &

where $BIBFILE_PATH is the path of the file (which is correct and works).

When I run the line from a terminal, it opens a st as a separate process and in st opens the file in vim as I want it. If I call the same line from vim / nvim as a command in a script, the command opens a terminal for a split second and then closes again.

I don't know what is going on.

If I use the line

st -t bibfile_edit_terminal_floating -e nvim $BIBFILE_PATH (without the ampersand at the ending), the file opens in a terminal like I want it but I cannot edit my original document as it waits for the process to finish, which is not what I want.

Please help!