Atom failing to launch for editing scripts

[cfritze64]

1.3.0-beta.6
setting up Kit on my second machine, a 2013 MacBook air running Big Sur
clean install of Kit and Atom
Atom has installed its Shell Commands
which atom in terminal gives /usr/local/bin/atom as expected
in the file ~/.kenv/.env is the line
KIT_EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/atom
the original version
KIT_EDITOR=atom
didn't work either
from the terminal, I can run
atom ~/.kenv/scripts/ascript and atom launches with ascript.js ready for editing just fine.
if I run Kit from the command line and try to edit a script, I get the following error:

getScripts is not defined
ReferenceError: getScripts is not defined
at Object.menu [as choices] (file:///Users/BikeFixe/.kit/cli/fns.js:11:9)
at async global.kitPrompt (/Users/BikeFixe/.kit/preload/mac-terminal.cjs:498:19)
at async global.arg (/Users/BikeFixe/.kit/preload/mac-terminal.cjs:544:15)
at async file:///Users/BikeFixe/.kit/cli/edit.js?uuid=4fb0bd72-daf8-4fc9-b27c-37676ed7ab1c:3:12
{ line: '///Users/BikeFixe/.kit/cli/fns.js', col: '11' }

[johnlindquist]

Dang, sorry. I know why that getScripts error is occurring. I'll fix that tonight.

I'm looking into what I changed that disabled Atom. Will report back ASAP.

[cfritze64]

OK. is there some sort of permissions issue? here's my prompt in terminal and the result of
ls -l

Christians-MacBook-Air:scripts BikeFixe$ ls -l
total 208
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 1227 Apr 27 07:52 app-launcher.js
-rw-r--r--@ 1 BikeFixe staff 1646 Apr 27 07:52 bcco-menu.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 160 Apr 27 07:52 browse-scriptkit.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 543 Apr 27 07:52 center-app.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 800 Apr 26 14:38 clipboard-history.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 338 Apr 27 07:52 curl-simplelists.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 342 Apr 26 14:38 dad-joke.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 221 Apr 27 07:52 edit-main.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 478 Apr 27 07:52 google-it.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 50 Apr 27 07:52 hotkey-demo.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 523 Apr 27 07:52 left-app.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 233 Apr 27 07:52 phone.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 6398 Apr 27 07:52 piper-script.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 1688 Apr 27 07:52 reddit.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 500 Apr 27 07:52 right-app.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 244 Apr 26 14:38 run-tutorial.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 845 Apr 27 07:52 sandbox.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 1520 Apr 27 07:52 set-zoom-windows-rehearsal.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 1520 Apr 27 07:52 set-zoom-windows.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 1412 Apr 27 07:52 test-script.js
-rw-r--r--@ 1 BikeFixe staff 12 Apr 26 16:10 testee.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 755 Apr 26 14:38 todos.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 579 Apr 27 07:52 truve.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 1212 Apr 26 14:38 word-api.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 BikeFixe staff 950 Apr 27 07:52 zoom-quick-links.js

the scripts with the trailing @ symbol in their permissions listing run and can be edited from the kit cli interface. Those without the trailing @ give script not found errors when I try to run or edit them in the kit cli interface.

If you want me to entirely wipe my .profile file, the .kenv and .kit directories in my home director, and atom and start all over, I can do that...

[johnlindquist]

Let me dig into it first. I was doing some menu caching to help speed up the initial App launch. This may have inadvertently impacted the cli menu.

[johnlindquist]

I'm pretty sure I got it this time if you "Help->Check for update". 🤞

[cfritze64]

Super. Two improvements and one remaining quirk.

if I run kit from the terminal, editing a script works great - opens atom right up to the selected script.
Same thing in the kit app - editing opens atom to the selected script.

The quirk: something still strange with "run a script" in the terminal app. I run kit in the terminal and type "run" and return to select the "run: Run a script" function. This leaves kit waiting for input on which script to run. If I type "dad" and return, I see that dad-joke is selected in response to my typing, but when I hit that return key, I get a message in the terminal "❯ Script Dad Joke not found. Please select a different script:". Same happens if I try to select dad-joke using arrow keys instead of typing "dad", or with other scripts.

[johnlindquist]

Oh, cool, glad to hear that Atom is finally working, phew.

That "Script not found" (previously from edit, now on run) is caused by the same validator failing. I wrote the validator and only tested it in the App, but the terminal behaves a tiny differently, so I need to adjust the validator to work with both. I'll get this fixed tomorrow.

FWIW, you should be able to run kit run dad-joke and skip the menu completely if you know the exact name of the script.