need a symbolic link to the manual of the used version to support update-alternatives

[pjgoodall]

Amongst the Debians, when setting update-alternatives the --slave parameter can't be set in a way that isn't broken when bob use xx changes the version of nvim. If we had a man1 directory under ~/.local/share/bob, it would all work nicely.

see baeldung - update-alternatives command

And - thanks very much for your very useful utility - nvim under Ubuntu is a mess...

[MordechaiHadad]

Still not very sure what I am supposed to do with this man1 dir

[MordechaiHadad]

🤔

[pjgoodall]

I leave where you put the manual file up to you. You may know better than me. But for bob to install a new version of nvim and its manual, and for them to be useful with update-alternatives, they need to be linked to a stable location. I thought a man directory would be conventional. The manuals for vim seem to find themselves in /usr/share/man1
The tutorial i linked to explains how the --slave option uses the man location. If I use your current place for the man, I will have to relink --slave every time I used bob to change the version of nvim.

I don't know what else to say. Except thanks for your time, and the excellent utility.

[MordechaiHadad]

So what u are asking me is basically, copy nvim's man1 to a designated path every time you switch versions?

[pjgoodall]

Yes thanks.

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[MordechaiHadad]

test #174 via one of the provided artifacts before i merge this

[MordechaiHadad]

@pjgoodall is this still relevant?

[pjgoodall]

@MordechaiHadad
My apologies. I’ll check it asap.
Many thanks.

[pjgoodall]

@MordechaiHadad

man nvim does not work after bob use latest, and adding bob/nvim-bin in .zshrc to the path - this is independent of the update-alternatives mechanism.

I tried testing against

cargo install --branch feat/man-copying --git https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob.git

again. I did not detect any difference. Did I try the right install?

Maybe there needs to be a script , or an init inclusion in the .zshrc
There seem to be a lot of initialization scripts about (from my .zshrc):

source $OH_MY_ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
  source "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/p10k-instant-prompt-${(%):-%n}.zsh"
source ${ZPLUG_HOME}/init.zsh
# Then, source plugins and add commands to $PATH
[ -f ~/.fzf.zsh ] && source ~/.fzf.zsh
[[ ! -f ~/.p10k.zsh ]] || source ~/.p10k.zsh
source ${ZSH_ALIAS_FILE}
source ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/broot/launcher/bash/br
[ -f "${HOME}/.ghcup/env" ] && source "${HOME}/.ghcup/env" # ghcup-env
source ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/broot/launcher/bash/br
source <(jj util completion zsh)
 source ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

I'm sorry I can't help with the work - I've never programmed in rust.

Cheers...

[MordechaiHadad]

What was the message you got from running bob use latest?

[pjgoodall]

The target system:

bob-nvim% lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release:	12
Codename:	bookworm

I used the command-line to install:

cargo git https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob.git#feat\/man-copying

/home/peterg/.cargo/bin/bob
bob-nvim% bob --version
bob-nvim 2.8.3
bob-nvim% bob use latest
Apr 02 02:42:48.554  INFO Fetching latest version
Downloaded version v0.9.5 to /home/peterg/.local/share/bob/v0.9.5.appimage
  [00:00:01] [███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████] 10.66MiB/10.66MiB (6.00MiB/s, 0s)
Apr 02 02:42:51.939  INFO You can now use v0.9.5!

The manual file is in the version's directory, but not with a stable link:

bob-nvim% fd -H nvim.1 /
/home/peterg/.local/share/bob/v0.9.5/nvim-linux64/man/man1/nvim.1

[MordechaiHadad]

It seems like you need to add enable_manpage_mirror to your bob config and set it to true