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jorgebucaran / fisher

A plugin manager for Fish
https://git.io/fisher
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Local packages are not installed using symbolic links #502

Closed FabioAntunes closed 5 years ago

FabioAntunes commented 5 years ago

You can also install packages from a local directory. Local packages are managed through symbolic links so that they can be developed and used at the same time.

Just installed a local package and to see the changes I need to keep doing

fisher add ~/path/to/my/local/plugin
jorgebucaran commented 5 years ago

@FabioAntunes Yes, there's really nothing that can be done about this (other than tweaking the documentation), since Fisher can't control the shell's function autoload interval.

Local packages are not installed using symbolic links #502

Local packages are installed in your fisher configuration as symlinks, but when create hard copies we move them to your functions directory. I still the think the documentation is confusing about this.

Just installed a local package and to see the changes I need to keep doing

No need to do fisher add ..., just running fisher will do it.

@faho I guess not, but is it possible to change the function autoload interval?

FabioAntunes commented 5 years ago

Sorry, I'm confused by this

Local packages are installed in your fisher configuration as symlinks, but we create hard copies we move them to your functions directory. I still the think the documentation is confusing about this.

So they are actually hard copied to our $HOME/.config/fish/functions if they are hard copied they never get updated without running fisher right? so this has nothing to do with fish autoload interval.

jorgebucaran commented 5 years ago

@FabioAntunes Yep, you are right. I was thinking about something else. This behavior has changed over the years and my mind was in a different place in time. We are not symlinking the original files, but I think we should. I'll include this in 3.2.0. 💯

Now, even if we do that, the docs are still wrong! Here's the problem: we source function files after installing a package. We are essentially telling the shell to forget about those files—they won't get watched for changes. So, after modifying a local package you'll have to run fisher or launch a new session.

jorgebucaran commented 5 years ago

@FabioAntunes 39e9f3f34079a1705f4580fa232fe15d10b632c0 🎉