Configure ObsidianOpen to look into a specific folder

[voidkrc]

🚀 The feature, motivation and pitch

Currently using NIX to manage my system app and home-manager creates an app inside /Applications/ in mac os. Configuring the ObsidianOpen to point to a path specified in the config would be optimal.

Example below:

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[epwalsh]

Configuring the ObsidianOpen to point to a path specified in the config would be optimal.

Are you talking about the path to the Obsidian.app file?

[voidkrc]

Configuring the ObsidianOpen to point to a path specified in the config would be optimal.

Are you talking about the path to the Obsidian.app file?

Indeed

[epwalsh]

Gotcha. That should be easy. Actually, where exactly is your Obsidian.app located? Is it just in a subdirectory of /Applications/? If so, we could try to automatically find it.

[voidkrc]

Gotcha. That should be easy. Actually, where exactly is your Obsidian.app located? Is it just in a subdirectory of /Applications/? If so, we could try to automatically find it.

Not really, nix creates a symlink in here /etc/profiles/per-user/tommy/bin/, but the original file is in nix-store (the foilder is a massive hash)

[epwalsh]

Ok got it. Well it was easiest to just add another option for this. #305

Can you confirm that works for you before I merge?

[rileyhawk1417]

🤔 so ObsidianOpen just opens the specified file in the Obsidian app? Was thinking it will just open the file in a new buffer within Neovim. Anyway to make it open within Neovim and not the Obsidian app?

[eblume]

Hi, I believe the PR #305 might have been closed in error. From reading the discussion chain, I believe the reporter may have had a separate issue, as I can replicate the command without the error:

❯ which obsidian
/etc/profiles/per-user/erichdblume/bin/obsidian

❯ cat $(which obsidian)
#! /nix/store/s30jrpgav677fpc9yvkqsib70xfmx7xi-bash-5.2p26/bin/bash -e
exec "/nix/store/qwgqkzh61cznjw6ghlbh91f6ra5nwigm-obsidian-1.6.3/Applications/Obsidian.app/Contents/MacOS/Obsidian"  "$@" 

❯ open -a /nix/store/qwgqkzh61cznjw6ghlbh91f6ra5nwigm-obsidian-1.6.3/Applications/Obsidian.app --background "obsidian://open?vault=zk"

❯ obsidian --background obsidian://open?vault=zk

The last two commands are at least functionally equivalent in that they both open Obsidian to a basic default page in the appropriate vault/workspace. This is with nix-pkgs' Obsidian.nvim, at least as of nixos-24.05.

Is there any way to revive and retest that PR? I am happy to test it although I am still learning Nix and will need to figure out how to bundle up Obsidian.nvim outside of nixpkgs in order to build it.

[eblume]

Also @rileyhawk1417 I think you want :ObsidianFollowLink, which works for me despite the above issue I mentioned.