It is possible to bring Vim as External Editor using Terminator?

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Operating system

Linux

Joplin version

3.0.12

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What issue do you have?

I want to know:

  1. It is possible to bring Vim as External Editor using Terminator?
  2. If yes, how to config?

I already read this topic Use Vim as external editor - Support - Joplin Forum and I know it is working with gnome-terminal.

But I try to mantain only Terminator installed as my terminal emulator.

This is my system specs:

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86 64
Kernel: 6.1.0-22-amd64
Packages: 3552 (dpkg), 40 (flatpak), 9 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.2.15
Resolution: 1920x1080
WM: i3
Theme: Arc-Dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Terminal: terminator
CPU: Intel i7-3770 (8) & 3.900GHZ
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon 540/540X/550/550X / RX 540X/550/550X
Memory: 7881MiB / 11921MiB

Thanks in advance.

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What did you try regarding Terminator?

You can practice attempts in a shell and run them from the command line. Once terminator and vim launch, you have what you need to move into Joplin.

3

Hello, andbenn.

  1. What did you try regarding Terminator?

Answer:

Path: terminator
Arguments: -- vim

and:

Path: terminator
Arguments: -e vim
  1. You can practice attempts in a shell and run them from the command line. Once terminator and vim launch, you have what you need to move into Joplin.

Answer:

From the command line, this one worked: terminator -e vim.

Path: terminator
Arguments: -e vim

But when I configure as above, Joplin does not open Vim.

4

In a terminal, type each of these lines:
which terminator
which vim

Each command will return the full path to the executable. Put that full line into the appropriate Joplin configuration text boxes.

Path: /usr/bin/whatever/somesuch/terminator
Arguments -e /usr/bin/whatever/somesuch/vim

As an example.

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Hello, andbenn.

/usr/bin/terminator

-e /usr/bin/vim

After finding the directories and configuring them on, I took the test.

Both by pressing the shortcut Ctrl + e or by clicking the taskbar button, the external editor is not opened:

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Do you need the -e? Try removing that.

I use st for my terminal and nvim as my editor and both launch with just the full paths and a ctrl-e sequence.

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Not necessarily. When I used -e, I was just trying to apply a pattern that already worked in other cases. For example, to run musikcube using Terminator on my i3wm:

bindsym Ctrl+Shift+k exec --no-startup-id terminator -e musikcube

Returning to Joplin: I tried again without -e and unfortunately it didn't work.