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doctorfree / nvim-lazyman

Neovim configuration manager and Lazy/Lua/Mason based Neovim config. Manage multiple Neovim configurations with the lazyman command. ☕
https://lazyman.dev
MIT License
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Suggestion: add vimacs to available versions #61

Closed rdataforge closed 7 months ago

rdataforge commented 7 months ago

Great work. Now I can test many neovim versions. But I noticed (or I couldn’t find) one of my favourites: https://github.com/orhnk/vimacs

Thanks!

doctorfree commented 7 months ago

Thanks. Yes, Vimacs is an excellent NvChad custom config. However, it has dependencies Lazyman does not satisfy and the initialization process is interactive so it is not officially supported yet in Lazyman. However, you can install and initialize Vimacs using Lazyman with the following command:

lazyman -V https://github.com/UTFeight/vimacs -o -D custom -N nvim-Vimacs

The Cody dependency is not met and there is an interactive portion of thee Vimacs initialization that prompts for Cody. The initialization hangs at this point (for me) and times out after a couple of minutes. Vimacs then comes up clean but with missing dependencies. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes. Supporting Neovim configurations that require interaction during initialization is not yet a feature of Lazyman.

rdataforge commented 7 months ago

ok. So maybe I could install Vimacs manually into nvim-Vimacs and then the command nvims could detect it and offer it as option? are there many other files I have to manipullate besides the nvim-Vimacs folder to make this happen?

I think this project is great. Many times i tried to keep several versions of neovim in parallel myself but ending bad as my main expertise is not programming. Thanks a lot

doctorfree commented 7 months ago

@rdataforge if you install Vimacs using Lazyman with lazyman -V https://github.com/UTFeight/vimacs -o -D custom -N nvim-Vimacs then the nvims shell function should detect it and present it as an option to open. If it does not then that is a problem and we should open an issue. It works for me.

If you manually install a Neovim configuration, not using the lazyman command, then nvims doesn't know anything about that. It may be possible to manually install and add an entry to ~/.config/nvim-Lazyman/.nvimdirs. This will fool Lazyman into thinking it installed the config and nvims should then recognize it. This is not a supported solution but you can try it. For example, if you have Vimacs installed in ~/.config/nvim-Vimacs then try adding a line nvim-Vimacs to ~/.config/nvim-Lazyman/.nvimdirs.

Or, just install it with lazyman. Does that make sense?

verajosemanuel commented 7 months ago

installing it with lazyman command worked like a charm. thanks a lot

doctorfree commented 7 months ago

Cool. Let me know if you figure out how we can better integrate Vimacs in to Lazyman.