Re: fish: how to change the vendor_* directories

[ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>]

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> > Today I noticed that my fish completions don't work if you install them from
> > within guix.
> > They do work if they are in one of the scanned directories, which includes and used to be
> > ~/.config/fish/completions/ where I symlinked my developer copy to.
> > So I just learned about ${PREFIX}/share/fish/vendor_functions.d being one of the directories
> > which is intended for third party addons.
> > We can not change fish to pick up $HOME/.guix-profile/share/fish/vendor_functions.d, at least
> > not from what I tried in 5 minutes. Vim was easier, you are able to set a path manually.
> > Any suggestions on how we can hack this? Maybe simply extend the SEARCH PATH?
> 
> Okay, I tried this:
> 
> user@abyayala ~/s/g/guix> git diff
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/shells.scm b/gnu/packages/shells.scm
> index 6f06acfa4..2b0199e12 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/shells.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/shells.scm
> @@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ direct descendant of NetBSD's Almquist Shell (@command{ash}).")
>               (substitute* "share/functions/__fish_print_help.fish"
>                 (("nroff") (which "nroff")))
>               #t)))))
> +    (native-search-paths
> +     (list (search-path-specification
> +            (variable "fish_function_path")
> +            (files '("share/fish/vendor_functions.d")))))
>      (synopsis "The friendly interactive shell")
>      (description
>       "Fish (friendly interactive shell) is a shell focused on interactive use,
> 
> this leads to (at guix package -i fish):
> 
> The following environment variable definitions may be needed:
>    export fish_function_path="/home/user/.guix-profile/share/fish/vendor_functions.d${fish_function_path:+:}$fish_function_path"

which leads us to:

user@abyayala ~> echo $fish_function_path
/gnu/store/xh4nlpwwacgsj4q7llvb8ly2525kd26g-profile/share/fish/vendor_functions.d /gnu/store/3bmrbk8c2a03y2b31gcv67n0bh3div7z-fish-2.5.0/share/fish/functions

if fish inherits from bash which previously sourced the .guix-profile/etc/profile file.

> where it should be:
> 
> set fish_function_path foo foo foo foo ourdir
> 
> in your fish config. So we basically must output the default (see below)
> and prepend the native-search-path we added.
> Because fish has a different syntax than bash it won't work like output
> at the end, but of course fish (if you don't change any defaults and your
> user shell is bash) inherits variables of bash. So this might work in
> this special case but not the case where fish is your system shell, which
> I'd honestly not recommend with guix. Or I would recommend it, so that we
> can see what errors could be produced. I simply start fish from bash.
> 
> file: "share/config.fish" in FISH source:
> 
> if not set -q fish_function_path
> set fish_function_path $configdir/fish/functions $__fish_sysconfdir/functions $__extra_functionsdir $__fish_datadir/functions
> 
> file: "configure.ac":
> …
> [extra_completionsdir=$withval],
>             [extra_completionsdir='${datadir}/fish/vendor_completions.d'])
> 
> AC_SUBST(extra_functionsdir)
>             [extra_functionsdir=$withval],
>             [extra_functionsdir='${datadir}/fish/vendor_functions.d'])
> …
> 
> at the moment this leads to:
> 
> [user@abyayala ~]$ fish
> user@abyayala ~> echo $fish_function_path
> /home/user/.config/fish/functions /etc/fish/functions /gnu/store/3bmrbk8c2a03y2b31gcv67n0bh3div7z-fish-2.5.0/share/fish/vendor_functions.d /gnu/store/3bmrbk8c2a03y2b31gcv67n0bh3div7z-fish-2.5.0/share/fish/functions
> 
> We could simply tell the users of this shell to update this manually OR hack it *somehow*
> into the defaults of fish.
> 
> I'd prefer a solution with native-search-patch.
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