Help with zshell issues (as related to nvim)

[j_westman]

First off, sorry if this is the incorrect forum. Didn’t really feel like this was related to lubuntu specifically so I didn’t know where to put it.

I’m having some issues when trying to run the nvim.appimage that was downloaded pre-compiled and ready to go from github.

I can run it just fine from my downloads folder but I moved it to /usr/local/bin/nvim
and it is just refusing to work no matter what I do.

 ls -la /usr/local/bin/nvim                                                                                                                    
drwxr-xr-x 2 jw   jw       4096 jul 23 12:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     4096 jul 23 12:15 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jw   jw   11109568 jul 22 22:44 nvim.appimage

As you can see I went mad and tried to give every user group the right to do whatever with the file…

in .zshrc i have “alias vim=/usr/local/bin/nvim/nvim.appimage”, however, trying to run it I get:

zsh: no such file or directory: ./usr/local/bin/nvim/nvim.appimage

executing /usr/local/bin/nvim/nvim.appimage works fine.

executing just “nvim” gives

zsh: permission denied: nvim

What the hell is going on?!

[humpty]

There is an extra ‘.’ at the start of
./usr/local/bin/nvim/nvim.appimage
are you sure your alias is correct ?

executing “nvim” (assuming your path has /usr/local/bin) just executes the directory nvim. You should be executing “nvim/nvim.appimage”

[j_westman]

@humpty

There is an extra ‘.’ at the start of
./usr/local/bin/nvim/nvim.appimage
are you sure your alias is correct ?

This worked, which is weird. In bash I know you need the ./ to execute but in zshell it doesn’t want to execute with ./ unless I am in the directory where the executable is located or before it. e.g. I can’t run ./usr/local/… from home. I assumed it would be the same from .zshrc - it wasn’t. I can now run it with the alias.

@humpty

executing “nvim” (assuming your path has /usr/local/bin) just executes the directory nvim. You should be executing “nvim/nvim.appimage”

Interesting, so making “nvim” actually run the executable probably requires it to be installed with ‘apt’ or some other package manager, is that correct?

Thanks for the help <3

[humpty]

No, I meant that the extra ‘.’ shouldn’t be there at all. But your zsh seems to think the alias had one.