SUMMARY When starting from the GUI in MacOS, Language servers cannot be started, since Kate cannot find them in PATH STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install bash-language-server via Homebrew 2. Open Kate from MacOS panel or via Finder 3. Browse to a Bash script file to start language server OBSERVED RESULT "Failed to find server binary: bash-language-server. Please check your PATH for the binary." EXPECTED RESULT bash-anguage-server would be started SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Kate: 24.11.70 / Nightly build: kate-master-7636-macos-clang-x86_64.dmg macOS: Ventura 13.6.7 Qt Version: 6.7.1 KDE Frameworks: 6.4.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION /etc/paths: contains /usr/local/bin, so it is added to PATH in Bash shell. When starting from bash shell: '/Applications/kate.app/Contents/MacOS/kate', the Language Server also starts OK. So this looks like a path setting issue and/or issue with starting other processes in macOS. WORKAROUNDS TRIED (but not leading to solution): 1. I tried setting the path into .plist file in Kate.app via LSEnvironment, but that did not help, or I could not make it properly effective. 2. Also, I tried setting the application path in the LSP settings to the JSON "path" attribute of bash-language-server, but still the same error message appeared about not able to locate bash-language-server in PATH 3. When setting the full path '/usr/local/bin/bash-language-server' to the "command" field in the User Server settings, I get a bit forward: "env: node: No such file or directory". Node would be in /usr/local/bin/node , too. So now it seems to progress up to the bash-language-server, but it cannot find node from the PATH. (Same problem would probably happen with almost all other LSP servers.) So the PATH should be somehow set to Kate.app , but I have not yet found a way.
Does something like this works: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/829749/launch-mac-eclipse-with-environment-variables-set ?
(In reply to Waqar Ahmed from comment #1) > Does something like this works: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/829749/launch-mac-eclipse-with- > environment-variables-set ? I can check if there's something I haven't tried. Glancing quickly through, most of the comments are from 2009, so I am fairly certain those don't work. I tried some *.plist magic from instructions that were written 2017...2022, and those did not work either. Apple has changed / broken / jailed more stuff since then, so we'd probably need actual Mac-expertise to help with this, maybe.
I think it might make sense to add some way in the Kate config dialog to add directories to the paths we use, an on macOS that is all a pain. Will not hurt on other systems, too.
@Lassi Väätämöinen can you test: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1621 ?
(In reply to Waqar Ahmed from comment #4) > @Lassi Väätämöinen can you test: > https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1621 ? I haven't been able to make MacOS builds happen. Is there some CI build that can be done? I know we have nightly builds, but those are off 'master' branch, I guess?
It can be triggered manually on the MR. I just triggered them so hopefully new binaries will appear soon
Ok, nice. I hope I'll have time to try it tonight.
(In reply to Waqar Ahmed from comment #4) > @Lassi Väätämöinen can you test: > https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1621 ? Downloaded: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/jobs/2286643 I was only able to start Kate off the command line. Starting from the GUI I only got a popup "kate is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to Bin" So with this build I cannot try to verify if the reported issue is fixed.
I triggered a new build, perhaps other stuff was damaged there.