External editor in windows

Tydan · 2019-01-03T18:05:09.736Z

Hello,

I would like to use MarkdownPad2 in my Windows as external editor in Joplin.

if I use
c:\Program Files (x86)\MarkdownPad 2\MarkdownPad2.exe
I get error message spawn c:\program NOENT

or if I use
Program Files (x86)\MarkdownPad 2\MarkdownPad2.exe
I get error message spawn program NOENT

What is wrong?

tessus · 2019-01-03T23:46:48.223Z

You are getting errors, because you have spaces in the path. I don’t know how to fix that on Windows.

Try to use double quotes around the path: "c:\Program Files (x86)\MarkdownPad 2\MarkdownPad2.exe"

barrett7212 · 2019-02-02T23:53:31.944Z

Any solution to this issue yet? I’m also having an issue where I can’t reset the default editor that I picked for Joplin.

laurent · 2019-02-03T14:31:25.139Z

Next version will be better for selecting external editor. Meanwhile, you need to add double quotes around the path if it contains spaces.

barrett7212:

Any solution to this issue yet? I’m also having an issue where I can’t reset the default editor that I picked for Joplin.

What do you mean you can't reset it?

barrett7212 · 2019-02-03T16:29:26.953Z

Hey Laurent,

I should have been more clear, my apologies.

First time user here, installed yesterday to try out Joplin since its feature set is right up my alley. I am very happy to see E2EE and nextcloud support!

In my testing, I was just clicking all the buttons on the main editing interface to get a feel for Joplin. When I clicked the external editor button, windows popped up the "which default program to use" dialog, and without thinking, I selected Chrome. Oops. From that point onward, it opened all the files in chrome, which isn't super useful

I did some digging and discovered the "Text editor command" property in the settings, which I promptly attempted to drop NP++ in. Unfortunately my install path has a space in it, and regardless if I use double quotes around the full path or not, I get this error:

Is there a way to reset the default editor (the one used when one is not specified in the Joplin settings)? Is that config stored in Joplin or in Windows? I tried looking in %appdata%, reinstalling, etc, but it never reset away from Chrome, and I never saw the window pop back up again. Perhaps my solution will just be moving NP++ to a directory without a space in it, unless I'm using the double quotes wrong.

Thanks for the quick reply and for developing this tool! It looks really promising!

Edit: Clarification