vnote/src/data/extra/docs/en/external_programs.md

External Programs

VNote allows user to open notes with external programs via the Open With in the context menu of the node explorer.

To add custom external programs, user needs to edit the session configuration (the session.json file in user configuration folder). A sample may look like this:

{
    "external_programs": [
        {
            "name" : "gvim",
            "command" : "C:\\\"Program Files (x86)\"\\Vim\\vim80\\gvim.exe %1",
            "shortcut" : "F4"
        },
        {
            "name" : "notepad",
            "command" : "notepad %1",
            "shortcut" : ""
        }
    ]
}

An external program could have 3 properties:

1. name: the name of the program in VNote;
2. command: the command to execute when opening notes with this external program;
   1. Use %1 as a placeholder which will be replaced by the real file paths (automatically wrapped by double quotes);
3. shortcut: the shortcut assigned to this external program;

Close VNote before editting the session configuration.