[qutebrowser] Problem with opening editor

Florian Bruhin me at the-compiler.org
Mon Mar 22 11:06:48 CET 2021


Hey,

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 03:57:03AM +0000, bruce allegra wrote:
> Error while spawning editor: Process failed to start: The system cannot
> find the file specified
> 
> I have been getting this error whilst trying to open an editor on windows
> using the edit-text command

That means whatever you specified as editor.command wasn't found. What
did you set the setting to? Is that editor in there in $PATH, can you
e.g. launch it from a cmd.exe (or powershell) window?

Florian

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