Hyper: Preferences opens Fluid.app?

[ylluminate]

Whenever I open preferences in app (cmd-, or go to the menubar and click it from there) in macOS, the app opens Fluid.app instead of an actual preferences for Hyper... Any thoughts on this?

[timothyis]

Hyper preferences open in your default text editor, which is sounds like is Fluid.app for you.
Hyper doesn't have any preferences UI 😄

[ylluminate]

LOL, that's really wild. Fluid.app isn't my default text ed, so..... Wow, I'm going to have to look into this deeper I guess.

[timothyis]

Would be really good to see what you discover. There's a lot of logic that goes into opening the default text editor (including logic for different platforms). Please let us know! cc @albinekb @chabou

[ylluminate]

Well, just for kicks and giggles I tried this here in hopes to make sure that TextMate was my default editor, but it didn't solve the issue:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print CFBundleIdentifier' /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Info.plist
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType=public.plain-text;LSHandlerRoleAll=com.macromates.TextMate;}'

Still opening with Fluid.app.

[timothyis]

I'm not expert in this, but I'm pretty sure Hyper tries to use the app associated with the $EDITOR env variable. What's assigned to that?

[ylluminate]

echo $EDITOR -> mate -w

[timothyis]

Okay, looking into this a bit more.
The logic for opening the preferences is located here: https://github.com/zeit/hyper/blob/master/app/config/open.js
This file uses Electron's shell API for opening files in their default manner. I'm not totally sure how Electron handles this so there must be something set somewhere in your system that defines Fluid.app as the default text editor for the .js file type.

If you open a js file elsewhere, does it open with Fluid.app?

[ylluminate]

You hit it on the head. I'm not a js dev (prefer Opal to going nuts with js proper on our apps) so I never really open js from Finder. Was able to 'Change All...' for .js to TextMate and now it's firing off. Thanks for finding that!

[jdsimcoe]

I have Vim set as my default editor in zsh but Hyper continues to open Coda whenever I do cmd + ,. Any ideas on how to resolve this?

[albinekb]

How have you set vim as your editor? We use the OS default editor, not EDITOR env variable @jdsimcoe

[jdsimcoe]

Ahhhh... that is my problem I guess. I have it set in my env variable. I just remember that I used to be able to edit the prefs in Vim.

[albinekb]

Yeah we changed that :) But will be revisiting this soon, with an inline editor like VS Code has as default, and options to use the current way or the old way (vim) to chose from 👍 @jdsimcoe

[reorx]

@albinekb how is the inline editor plan going? the fact that a terminal emulator opens its preference file in another app looks weird and stupid, and annoys me every time I hit cmd + , subconsciously.

[kevinSuttle]

vim ~/.hyper.js...