Unable to launch (permissions error)

[onyxfish]

Hey Justin, I just went to give this a shot and ran into this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/snipsnip", line 5, in <module>
    pkg_resources.run_script('SnipSnip==1.0', 'snipsnip')
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 489, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 1214, in run_script
    exec script_code in namespace, namespace
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/SnipSnip-1.0-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/snipsnip", line 7, in <module>

  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/snip/search.py", line 224, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/snip/search.py", line 26, in __init__
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/whoosh/index.py", line 91, in create_in
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/whoosh/filedb/filestore.py", line 60, in create_index
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/whoosh/filedb/fileindex.py", line 89, in _create_index
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/whoosh/filedb/fileindex.py", line 99, in _write_toc
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/whoosh/filedb/filestore.py", line 79, in create_file
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/onyxfish/.snipsnip/index/_MAIN_0.toc.1325090411.24'

[onyxfish]

Ah, this is probably because I sudo installed it, but am running it as my normal user. So those index files were created as root.

[onyxfish]

I'd suggest having those directories created at runtime if they don't exist, rather than in setup.py.

[joequery]

The ~/.snipsnip directory and all subfolders need to be writable. I put that info in the readme, but I guess I could be more clear. I attempted to make a writable directory via the os package but wasn't able to, so I've asked the users to do it themselves through the shell.

[joequery]

And the name's Joseph, you big jerk!

[onyxfish]

Doh! (on both counts) Sorry about that. I was in communication with your cohort at the same time I was writing this. Apparently my wires crossed.

[onyxfish]

Since this thread is open now, I'll just put my thoughts here. Bullet-pointed:

• I think this is a pretty neat idea. Although it's unlikely to be something I would personally use, it's undeniably a neat use of Whoosh.
• You should make the arrow keys work. Vim controls are great and all, but even as a vim user my first instinct was to use the arrows.
• You should alias a nearby key to "enter", so I don't have to move my whole hand to select something. I might suggest "n" or "g".
• Don't use Ctrl+C as your escape sequence, that's used by the shell and I keep accidentally killing snipsnip.
• I'd probably punt on the "language" categories and just make it a big soup. Doesn't seem like you lose much and it would make simplify the usage quite a bit.
• Support for operating it via command line flags would be great (at least support -h).

Hope that helps! Chris

[joequery]

Awesome feedback, thanks a ton! Could you elaborate on your last point?

[onyxfish]

I was thinking something like:

• snipsnip --new "snippet name" -> opens vim, on exit immediately saves snippet and exits
• snipsnip --find "something" -> returns snippet id's + names
• snipsnip --view [snippet_id] -> cat's snippet to screen

Just a thought.

[onyxfish]

You might want to take a look at how I do the argument parsing stuff in csvkit:

https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit/blob/master/csvkit/cli.py

Or, for something more robust, you can check out Cement:

http://cement.readthedocs.org/en/0.8.18/index.html

[joequery]

I've broken your suggestions out into multiple issues. Thanks a bunch! (Yes, necropost ftw!)