I'm trying to set up a custom external tools in Kate KDE editor.

the tool command looks like:

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/usr/local/bin/pre-commit run --files /home/GIT/ami-factory-test/pipelines-master.yml

and the expected output is (this is what I get when I run it from terminal)

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Check Yaml...............................................................Passed
Check JSON...........................................(no files to check)Skipped
Fix End of Files.........................................................Passed
Trim Trailing Whitespace.................................................Passed
AWS CloudFormation Linter............................(no files to check)Skipped

From the image is visible, that the the %{Document:Path} is resolved correctly.

But when I run the tool in Kate I get following result:

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Check Yaml...........................................(no files to check)Skipped
Check JSON...........................................(no files to check)Skipped
Fix End of Files.....................................(no files to check)Skipped
Trim Trailing Whitespace.............................(no files to check)Skipped
AWS CloudFormation Linter............................(no files to check)Skipped

Which is exactly what I get when I run from the terminal (without the variable resolution):

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$ /usr/local/bin/pre-commit run --files %{Document:Path}

Additionally in the status pane Kate shows:

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Running external tool: pre-commit
- Executable: pre-commit
- Arguments : run --files %{Document:Path}
- Input     :

Finished with exit code: 0

When I hardcode arguments to

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run --files /home/GIT/ami-factory-test/pipelines-master.yml

I get the correct result and status also shows:

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Running external tool: pre-commit
- Executable: pre-commit
- Arguments : run --files /home/GIT/ami-factory-test/pipelines-master.yml
- Input     :

Finished with exit code: 0


How do I find out what I'm doing wrong with respect to the %{Document:Path} variable resolution?

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$ kate --version
kate 19.12.3

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dpkg -l *kate*
====================-==================-============-============================================
ii  kate                 4:19.12.3-0ubuntu1 amd64        powerful text editor
ii  kate5-data           4:19.12.3-0ubuntu1 all          shared data files for Kate text editor
ii  ktexteditor-katepart 5.68.0-0ubuntu1    amd64        provide advanced plain text editing services

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$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS"

%{Document:Path} does not include the filename. Perhaps %{Document:FilePath} is more appropriate in this case.

In the screenshot I don't see /pipelines-master.yml. Are you going to use the tool by opening this particular file?

I guess that was it. Thank you