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Package: neovim-qt
Version: 0.2.16-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc:
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Dear Maintainer,
I spotted this (potential?) bug when attempting to use git difftool,
with gvim as the selected tool, e.g.
git difftool --tool=gvimdiff
It seems this command expects gvim to remain attached to the terminal.
As nvim-qt detaches (even when called via 'gvim'), git difftool thinks
gvim has finished and exited before it even loads and consequently
deletes the necessary temp files. This means the diffs cannot be read in
nvim - it just shows empty buffers for the temp files.
I'm assuming this is not how gvim is expected to behave, or how other
providers of gvim behave, given that it is not what git expects. Thus, I propose the following patch. Change /usr/libexec/neovim-qt/gvim by
adding the --nofork option so it reads:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/nvim-qt --nofork -- "$@"
After doing this, 'git difftool --tool=gvimdiff' now works as expected.
Thanks for your time. Hope this report helped.
Cheers,
Oscar
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.10
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-32-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages neovim-qt depends on:
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u10
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14
ii libmsgpackc2 4.0.0-3
ii libqt5core5a 5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii libqt5gui5 5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii libqt5network5 5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii libqt5svg5 5.15.8-3
ii libqt5widgets5 5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14
ii neovim 0.7.2-7
neovim-qt recommends no packages.
neovim-qt suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/nvim-qt --nofork -- "$@"
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