On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 06:51:47PM -0400, Thomas Dickey 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 > I wonder if this is related to the issue I had quite a while ago where I wanted to fork/exec xvile from a firefox addon, the addon didn't seem to be able to 'detect' xvile properly.
I ended up calling this (horrible) bash script from the firefox addon:- #!/bin/bash rm /tmp/xvlink ln -s $1 /tmp/xvlink cat $1 | xvile -fn 10x20 /tmp/xvlink rm /tmp/xvlink -- Chris Green