Snapping Neovim

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

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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