Old 07-19-2018, 08:01 PM   #1
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Has anyone been able to get and external editor working in Linux?

I've set my default editor to '/usr/bin/audacity' (which is valid and works from the command line) -- but Reaper gives me the error "One or more external editors could not be launched" when I attempt to open a file.

Looking at the output from Reaper in my terminal I see:
"gio: file:///usr/bin/audacity: No application is registered as handling this file"

I'm running Reaper 5.94pre1 64-bit on Antergos Linux.
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Old 07-20-2018, 12:46 AM   #2
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I can confirm a problem with this, though since I've never used it I'm not quite sure how it's supposed to work.
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Old 07-20-2018, 04:29 AM   #3
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Yes, confirmed it doesn't work with audacity, and that's also true for mhwaveedit.
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Old 07-20-2018, 06:06 AM   #4
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Thanks! I've fixed this in the public WDL if you would like to test by building your own libSwell, (and it'll be fixed in the next build).
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Old 07-20-2018, 11:57 AM   #5
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Thanks! I've fixed this in the public WDL if you would like to test by building your own libSwell, (and it'll be fixed in the next build).
Yeah! I just updated and it's now working as expected. Thanks for the quick attention.
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Old 07-20-2018, 11:36 PM   #6
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Verified working here too, both Audacity and Mhwaveedit.

Thanks for the quick fix!
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Old 12-03-2021, 05:38 PM   #7
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If you aren't sure what the command is for starting Audacity (or another program):

Typing
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which audacity
and hitting "enter" will reveal the command you need to use in the Add External Editor preference panel. Substitute the other editor's name for Audacity in the command of course.
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