Re: xvile as external editor for Joplin

[Gerard Lally]

Thank you, Thomas.

xvile -fork does the trick.

So does xterm -e vile. What confused me a little was that I was
entering vile in Joplin's "Text Editor" box where I should have
entered xterm instead.

-e vile of course goes in the "Arguments" box, not the editor box.

Thanks again.

Gerard Lally

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 23:51, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 04:49:57PM +0100, Gerard Lally wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > It is possible to edit notes in the Joplin notes app using an external
> > editor. Unfortunately, xvile freezes when I try to do so.
> >
> > joplinapp dot org
> >
> > No cursor, scrollbar or menus appear either. How to start troubleshooting?
>
> hmm - some library conflict, perhaps.  I'd make joplin run a shell script
> which calls the actual binary xvile, using the shell script to run strace
> (to see what files it opens, including the shared libraries).
>
> Making xvile fork on startup might be a workaround:
>
>         xvile -fork
>
> > I'm happy to edit using vile + xterm instead, if I know the magic formula!
>
>         xterm -e vile whatever
>
> > Tested on Slackware 14.2 and -current, and also on Debian -testing.
> > All fully patched, and vile + xvile installed from Slackbuilds /
> > Debian repos.
> >
> > Gerard Lally
> >
>
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