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sultaz opened this issue Apr 24, 2025 · 2 comments
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Unable to open the editor on Mac OS #541

sultaz opened this issue Apr 24, 2025 · 2 comments

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sultaz commented Apr 24, 2025

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Describe the bug

I am on Mac OS 15.4.1 and just installed zk. I am using the default config and templates and am having issues with the editor on zk. When I run the command
zk new --title "Test Doc"

I get the following message:

zsh:1: command not found: hx
zk: error: operation aborted by editor: hx /Users/user/git/notes/j79h.md: exit status 127

I search the issues and found "Cannot open a new file in editor in Windows #499". But I'm not on Windows. I first installed zk using brew, but when I couldn't get it to work I uninstalled it then cloned the current repo and ran make to install it and it was the same thing.

The other commands work and when I run the new command it creates the file but errors out and when I run edit it errors out. I tried it using Neovim with the same result. Both hx and Neovim are in my path.

How to reproduce?

  1. Run zk new --title "Test Doc"
  2. Run `zk edit 17r5.md

zk configuration

# zk configuration file
#
# Uncomment the properties you want to customize.

# NOTE SETTINGS
#
# Defines the default options used when generating new notes.
[note]

# Language used when writing notes.
# This is used to generate slugs or with date formats.
#language = "en"

# The default title used for new note, if no `--title` flag is provided.
#default-title = "Untitled"

# Template used to generate a note's filename, without extension.
#filename = "{{id}}"

# The file extension used for the notes.
#extension = "md"

# Template used to generate a note's content.
# If not an absolute path or "~/unix/path", it's relative to .zk/templates/
template = "default.md"

# Path globs ignored while indexing existing notes.
#exclude = [
#    "drafts/*",
#    "log.md"
#]

# Configure random ID generation.

# The charset used for random IDs. You can use:
#   * letters: only letters from a to z.
#   * numbers: 0 to 9
#   * alphanum: letters + numbers
#   * hex: hexadecimal, from a to f and 0 to 9
#   * custom string: will use any character from the provided value
#id-charset = "alphanum"

# Length of the generated IDs.
#id-length = 4

# Letter case for the random IDs, among lower, upper or mixed.
#id-case = "lower"


# EXTRA VARIABLES
#
# A dictionary of variables you can use for any custom values when generating
# new notes. They are accessible in templates with {{extra.<key>}}
[extra]

#key = "value"


# GROUP OVERRIDES
#
# You can override global settings from [note] and [extra] for a particular
# group of notes by declaring a [group."<name>"] section.
#
# Specify the list of directories which will automatically belong to the group
# with the optional `paths` property.
#
# Omitting `paths` is equivalent to providing a single path equal to the name of
# the group. This can be useful to quickly declare a group by the name of the
# directory it applies to.

#[group."<NAME>"]
#paths = ["<DIR1>", "<DIR2>"]
#[group."<NAME>".note]
#filename = "{{format-date now}}"
#[group."<NAME>".extra]
#key = "value"


# MARKDOWN SETTINGS
[format.markdown]

# Format used to generate links between notes.
# Either "wiki", "markdown" or a custom template. Default is "markdown".
#link-format = "wiki"
# Indicates whether a link's path will be percent-encoded.
# Defaults to true for "markdown" format and false for "wiki" format.
#link-encode-path = true
# Indicates whether a link's path file extension will be removed.
# Defaults to true.
#link-drop-extension = true

# Enable support for #hashtags.
hashtags = true
# Enable support for :colon:separated:tags:.
colon-tags = false
# Enable support for Bear's #multi-word tags#
# Hashtags must be enabled for multi-word tags to work.
multiword-tags = false


# EXTERNAL TOOLS
[tool]

# Default editor used to open notes. When not set, the EDITOR or VISUAL
# environment variables are used.
#editor = "vim"

# Pager used to scroll through long output. If you want to disable paging
# altogether, set it to an empty string "".
#pager = "less -FIRX"

# Command used to preview a note during interactive fzf mode.
# Set it to an empty string "" to disable preview.

# bat is a great tool to render Markdown document with syntax highlighting.
#https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
#fzf-preview = "bat -p --color always {-1}"


# LSP
#
#   Configure basic editor integration for LSP-compatible editors.
#   See https://github.com/zk-org/zk/blob/main/docs/editors-integration.md
#
[lsp]

[lsp.diagnostics]
# Each diagnostic can have for value: none, hint, info, warning, error

# Report titles of wiki-links as hints.
#wiki-title = "hint"
# Warn for dead links between notes.
dead-link = "error"

[lsp.completion]
# Customize the completion pop-up of your LSP client.

# Show the note title in the completion pop-up, or fallback on its path if empty.
#note-label = "{{title-or-path}}"
# Filter out the completion pop-up using the note title or its path.
#note-filter-text = "{{title}} {{path}}"
# Show the note filename without extension as detail.
#note-detail = "{{filename-stem}}"


# NAMED FILTERS
#
#    A named filter is a set of note filtering options used frequently together.
#
[filter]

# Matches the notes created the last two weeks. For example:
#    $ zk list recents --limit 15
#    $ zk edit recents --interactive
#recents = "--sort created- --created-after 'last two weeks'"


# COMMAND ALIASES
#
#   Aliases are user commands called with `zk <alias> [<flags>] [<args>]`.
#
#   The alias will be executed with `$SHELL -c`, please refer to your shell's
#   man page to see the available syntax. In most shells:
#     * $@ can be used to expand all the provided flags and arguments
#     * you can pipe commands together with the usual | character
#
[alias]
# Here are a few aliases to get you started.

# Shortcut to a command.
#ls = "zk list $@"

# Default flags for an existing command.
#list = "zk list --quiet $@"

# Edit the last modified note.
#editlast = "zk edit --limit 1 --sort modified- $@"

# Edit the notes selected interactively among the notes created the last two weeks.
# This alias doesn't take any argument, so we don't use $@.
#recent = "zk edit --sort created- --created-after 'last two weeks' --interactive"

# Print paths separated with colons for the notes found with the given
# arguments. This can be useful to expand a complex search query into a flag
# taking only paths. For example:
#   zk list --link-to "`zk path -m potatoe`"
#path = "zk list --quiet --format {{path}} --delimiter , $@"

# Show a random note.
#lucky = "zk list --quiet --format full --sort random --limit 1"

# Returns the Git history for the notes found with the given arguments.
# Note the use of a pipe and the location of $@.
#hist = "zk list --format path --delimiter0 --quiet $@ | xargs -t -0 git log --patch --"

# Edit this configuration file.
#conf = '$EDITOR "$ZK_NOTEBOOK_DIR/.zk/config.toml"'

Environment

zk 0.15.0-3-ga10d80b
system: Darwin 24.4.0 arm64
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tjex commented Apr 29, 2025

How did you try it using neovim?
e.g, what did you add to the config or execute in the cli?

# Default editor used to open notes. When not set, the EDITOR or VISUAL
# environment variables are used.
#editor = "vim"

Do you have these environment variables set?
What happens when you execute $(which nvim) or $(which hx)? Do they match echo $EDITOR?

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sultaz commented May 4, 2025 •
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Sorry for the late response. I was out of town for a few days away from my computer.

I have the editor configured in my .zshrc file.

export EDITOR=hx
#export EDITOR=nvim

$ which nvim
/opt/homebrew/bin/nvim

$ which hx
/opt/homebrew/bin/hx

If I comment out nvim in my .zshrc file, the message is:
zsh:1: command not found: hx

And if I comment out Helix instead it gives me the message:
zsh:1: command not found: nvim

I just uncommented the editor = vim in the config file and changed it to hx and it worked. I believed that if I went with the base config file without changing anything then it would use my default editor, so I didn't think I needed to change it. That was an oversite on my part.

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