Snapping Neovim

[Matthew Williams]

Hi Gustavo, devmode was what I was thinking, I'd not consider an interface
like that, I'll look into it

Thanks

Matty

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Gustavo Niemeyer <
gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:

> They can install it as devmode, and we can also introduce an
> "editor-support" interface which gives global read/write access to it.
>
> Would need to be manually connected for the time being, but assertion
> control for that is coming very soon.
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:40 AM, Matthew Williams <
> matthew.williams at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> I've commented on the bug, but there's a larger question here I can't
>> work out the answer to, which is how would a user expect neovim to be
>> restricted when installed via a snap? It could be reasonable to suggest it
>> can only edit files in $HOME, but that's not useful to sysadmins, so why
>> would a sysadmin use snaps to install neovim?
>>
>> Matty
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Leo Arias <leo.arias at canonical.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-08-26 10:53, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
>>> > Can you change neovim to look for these dot files elsewhere, like
>>> > $SNAP_USER_DATA (if I didn't typoed the var name)?
>>>
>>> That is right for the config files of Neovim itself. However, I would
>>> like to be able to edit something like ~/.bashrc. We have a bug for that:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1607067
>>>
>>> It doesn't have a lot of information, so feel free to expand it in the
>>> comments.
>>>
>>> pura vida.
>>>
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