Запустите nvim с bindsym в i3

Creo que estás buscando la señal RETURN:

[...] If a SIGNAL_SPEC is EXIT (0) ARG is executed on exit from the shell.
[...] If a SIGNAL_SPEC is RETURN, ARG is executed each time a shell function or a script run by the. or source builtins finishes executing.

Ejemplo:

$ bash
$ trap "echo shell exiting" EXIT
$ fn() { trap "echo function exiting" RETURN; }
$ fn
function exiting
$ (fn)
function exiting
$ value=$(fn); echo "$value"
function exiting
$ exit
shell exiting

y, en relación con la pregunta:

$ f2() { 
    local tmp=$(mktemp)
    trap 'rm "$tmp"' RETURN
    echo "$tmp"
    date >> "$tmp"
    cat "$tmp"
}
$ f2
/tmp/tmp.MHpI20X0a1
Fri May 11 14:29:01 EDT 2018
$ ls -l /tmp/tmp.MHpI20X0a1
ls: cannot access '/tmp/tmp.MHpI20X0a1': No such file or directory