Hello, I just downloaded the app. Trying to use it in my terminal in my Ubuntu machine. the problem is that I can't edit, it throws an error: edit: Error opening note in editor: spawnSync neovim ENOENT As you can see I'm just trying to edit with my neovim editor. Is someone familiar with the …

[image] HOWTO: Change external editor? Support On the desktop app for MacOS, I’m given the option in settings for a text editor command, but there’s no documentation on how to fill this out. I’ve tried using the absolute path to my editor, and the command used to open my e…

Hi man, Thanks for responding! How exactly do i set an absolute path? and where? @tessus

check on the terminal, not in Joplin with the following command: which neovim You will get the absolute path. Then in Joplin terminal app, you type: :config editor <absolute_path_here> e.g. on my system: $ which vim /usr/bin/vim :config edit /usr/bin/vim

Hi! I am having the same problem. I am using joplin-cli on Ubuntu 20.04. I attempted to set the editor to vim after finding the absolute path $ which vim /usr/bin/vim Using the command :config editor /usr/bin/vim And I can see it is succesfully set when I run :config editor Because joplin ou…

Did you install from npm as per the documentation or did you download it from somewhere else? [image] kivakiva: I also cannot find how to reset the editor, so my app permanently breaks unless I remove and reinstall it. Are you saying the app won't ever start again or that you can't edit the …

I had installed with Ubuntu software. Installing following the doc instructions fixed the problem! Thank you for the quick response and the solution! I am a fan of this application, so being able to edit with external editors is a huge plus. The app would start but I could not edit a note because …

I suspected this might be the case, I think the Ubuntu software app lists the flatpak (which isn't mainted by the Joplin team) and because of the sandboxing you would have to set other permissions first.

Problem with editing (can't edit in the terminal's app)

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tessus 13 February 2020 21:32 2

Try to use the absolute path.

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Problem with editing (can't edit in the terminal's app)

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