Plugin doesn't open my vault in VS Code

[kenanmike]

I've downloaded and enabled the plugin, but when I either click the ribbon or select command from the command palette, Obsidian freezes for a couple of seconds then nothing happens.
I'm on MacOS Big Sur 11.4, using the latest version of Obsidian and the latest version of the plugin. VS Code itself works fine for me.

[NomarCub]

I don't have a mac to test on, so please help me out here.

Have you tried the URL option?
What happens when you use a shell outside of Obsidian to launch VSCode with the vault (code {{vault path}})?
If you open the developer view in Obsidian (Ctrl + Shift + I on Windows), do you see an error log?

[kenanmike]

Yes, URL works! Thanks. As far I’m concerned there’s no issue now. But to answer you directly, after putting the vault path, using the shell doesn’t work, and there’s no errors in my error log strangely. As I said, though, URL works great, and on Mac first time you can even not to get asked again whether to open it, so it works lightning fast now.

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[NomarCub]

Glad it works now!
If more people have this issue, I'll probably update the readme to make things clearer, and set the URL method as default.

[andynameistaken]

Yeah, bumped at this issue too. If you are working on Linux you can always check sosumi for mac testing

[NomarCub]

Thanks for the recommendation.
Did you have the same issue, and resolved it with the URL method too?

[huyz]

I have the same problem with macOS 11.5. But I can't switch to the URL method because I'm trying to open a Dendron workspace, which requires that I use the command: code "{{vaultpath}}/../dendron.code-workspace" to work.

And there are no errors in the Obsidian Developer Console.

[NomarCub]

Does the command (with vaultpath substituted) work in a normal shell?

If not I could make some modifications with more logging to send you.

[huyz]

The command in the shell does work. I go to the vault and run: code "$PWD/../dendron.code-workspace"

Sure, I can take your mods

[NomarCub]

Here's a modified main.js with more logging.

This plugin uses Node.js child_process to execute, which I know nothing about, so I may not be able to offer a timely solution or any.

main.zip

[huyz]

Thanks, that extra logging didn't help but you pointed me to the code where I could add my own logging. It turns out that we needed the full path of code.

So this worked: /usr/local/bin/code "{{vaultpath}}/../dendron.code-workspace"
I don't know why /usr/local/bin isn't in the $PATH for Obsidian on macOS.

Btw, this is the debugging code that helped me figure it out, which you may want to add to your code:

              const execResult = exec(command, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
                if (error) {
                  console.error(`exec error: ${error}`);
                  return;
                }
              });

[NomarCub]

I'm glad it works, and thanks for the tip!
I made a new release adding this, I hope it can help others in the future as well.