Open dbarnett opened 2 weeks ago
FYI I have the improvements for this implemented in https://github.com/dbarnett/vroom/tree/detect_vim, but they're stacked on top of #133 so I'll wait to send a PR until that one's merged.
I would like to re-word this issue. Something like 'Allow configuration of the path to vim/nvim executable'. And as part of what needs to be done improve on the errors quality.
The root cause for it is not that we don't do things automatically, but that we use a command name instead of a file and don't allow the overwrite.
For a testing framework making automatic choices is arguably less than desirable, as the mistake in configuration may survive unnoticed.
A side note: I don't think aliases matter as much, because we don't use bash, but symlink collisions in path are very much an obvious problem.
That name SGTM. LMK if anything beyond the title sounds bad to you.
Currently if you run vroom it tries to invoke vim classic as 'vim', or if you pass the
--neovim
option it tries to invoke neovim as 'nvim'. This gets annoying in a few ways:It would be nice to generalize that and add inference so that you have more control over which vim executable it's invoking and it can more automagically figure out which options to pass to whichever vim variant it's pointed at.