System fzf binary causing problems

[esn89]

• nvim --version: NVIM v0.7.2
• git --version: git version 2.32.1 (Apple Git-133)
• Operating system/version: MacOS 12.5
• Terminal name/version: kitty 0.24.1

Steps to reproduce

Use homebrew/macports to install fzf to /opt/local/bin/fzf

Use my packer config:

return require("packer").startup(function(use)
    -- Packer can manage itself
    use("wbthomason/packer.nvim")

    -- fzf
    use("/opt/local/bin/fzf")
    use("junegunn/fzf.vim")
end)

Actual behaviour

What happens when I run :PackerInstall:

               packer.nvim - finished in 0.254s
 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 ✗ Failed to install /opt/local/bin/fzf

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However, fzf does exist on that path:

which fzf
/opt/local/bin/fzf

Expected behaviour

I expect it to pick up that path so I can use fzf.vim

packer files

Post the contents of ~/.cache/nvim/packer.nvim.log here

return require("packer").startup(function(use)
    -- Packer can manage itself
    use("wbthomason/packer.nvim")

    -- fzf
    use("/opt/local/bin/fzf")
    use("junegunn/fzf.vim")
end)

[MunifTanjim]

That's not how you do it.

/opt/local/bin/fzf is the binary file, not the plugin directory.

You'll need to use the value of $(brew --prefix)/opt/fzf as stated here: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fzf

[MunifTanjim]

It'll be something like this: https://github.com/MunifTanjim/dotfiles/blob/5287c3ca89b7f773a3d8af6d8d78f3fe1c47062c/private_dot_config/nvim/lua/config/plugins.lua#L298-L301

With the fzf_root being:

vim.trim(vim.fn.system('brew --prefix')) .. '/opt/fzf'

[esn89]

@MunifTanjim

I am using macports so I do not have the brew --prefix command. Macports installs everything in /opt/local/bin, including fzf.

I did do something similar, but still getting this:

    local fzf_root = '/opt/local/bin'
    if vim.fn.isdirectory(fzf_root) == 1 then
        use(fzf_root)
    use('junegunn/fzf.vim')
    end

But when I try to do, :Files, I see something like:

[MunifTanjim]

/opt/local/bin is where the binary file lives. You need the directory where the plugin folder lives.

[esn89]

@MunifTanjim

Hang on, I am now a bit confused.

So I need both, or only the plugin folder?

[MunifTanjim]

Try running port notes fzf, it should output something like this: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/260f33aa2a03fe0adb28933dbd00daf029163d09/sysutils/fzf/Portfile#L156-L168

And the directory should be something like /opt/local/share/fzf/vim... that's the directory you need.

local fzf_root = '/opt/local/share/fzf/vim'

So I need both, or only the plugin folder?

fzf_root should be set to where the plugin folder is located. In your case, it's probably /opt/local/share/fzf/vim.

[esn89]

@MunifTanjim

Thanks for your reply.

So right now I have:

    local fzf_root = '/opt/local/share/fzf/vim'
    if vim.fn.isdirectory(fzf_root) == 1 then
        use(fzf_root)
        use('junegunn/fzf.vim')
    end

But now with this config, I get:

[MunifTanjim]

can you run fzf --version from your terminal?

[MunifTanjim]

You should open issue on fzf.vim repo, this really has nothing to do with packer.nvim. Maybe check a few existing issues there: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim/issues?q=failed+to+run ?

[esn89]

@MunifTanjim

Of course, yes right here:

fzf --version
0.32.0 (MacPorts)

[esn89]

@MunifTanjim I have fixed it. Turns out my vim was using the wrong shell.