Hi all, first of all, thanks for your work on Joplin! I use gvim to edit documents externally on linux in v 1.0.158. Unfortunately about half of the time, Joplin stops watching the file and does not see the updates from the external editor file. I have not been able to reproduce consistently, but i…

I had the issue, but it happened consistently after about 3 saves (I don’t remember exactly). To fix this I needed to start vim like this gvim -c 'set backupcopy=yes' And to get that into joplin (using gnome-terminal on linux) [image] (Replace vim with gvim) If this doesn’t fix your issue, you…

Watching for external edits stops in Linux

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kore 17 June 2019 12:05 13

i’m using gedit on linux debian. 1 save before it stops capturing changes! i opened the discussion here: Bug saving notes in external editor

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Watching for external edits stops in Linux

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