SnipInfo Command Error and Unable to receive user input.

[rileychc]

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[michaelb]

Hey, please fill correctly your bug report.

SnipInfo works on my end (I would be tempted to say 'obviously'), so unless you provide me with enough info, I won't be able to fix your issue

[rileychc]

~/.cache/sniprun/infofile.txt， I don't have this document

[rileychc]

But my main problem is that I still can't pop up to receive user input, causing my cin function to be a random value.

[rileychc]

local lines = lines_from(sniprun_cache_dir.."/infofile.txt") This code caused me to get a nil.

[michaelb]

But my main problem is that I still can't pop up to receive user input, causing my cin function to be a random value.

That's a limitation of sniprun. It won't be fixed in the near future, see #146

~/.cache/sniprun/infofile.txt， I don't have this document

It's supposed to be generated, and I hardly see where it can fail. Could you copy here the content of ~/.cache/sniprun/sniprun.log after trying to run SnipInfo ?

[rileychc]

I can't find the sniprun folder in the .cache folder.

[michaelb]

I can't find the sniprun folder in the .cache folder.

Wut. Does sniprun even work ? (Run it on a very simple line such as "print(1)" in a python file)

Or do you have an $XDG_CACHE_DIR environment variable that's set to somewhere strange ?

[rileychc]

I didn't set this $XDG_CACHE_DIR environment variable, and my sniprun can output printf("hello world");

[michaelb]

okay, so this just got from strange to stranger.

I'll explain. Sniprun (the binary part) generates stuff (including the infofile.txt, the log and some files it needs to run correctly) in a directory that's supposed to be standard

use dirs::cache_dir;

fn main() {
    println!("cache dir: {:?}", cache_dir());
}

And the Lua plugin part, that doesn't have the info, looks into $XDG_CACHE_HOME (sorry for earlier, it's ...HOME, not ...DIR), or defaults to $HOME/.cache

So, my conclusion is that these two don't point to the same location. You didn't say what OS you were running on, but possibly something isn't quite XDG-compliant.
If you can determine where the dirs crate I use locate the cache directory on your system, you should be able to export XDG_CACHE_HOME to the same location, and get SnipInfo working

[rileychc]

I'm using macOS.

[rileychc]

So what should I do? Specify the path XDG_CACHE_HOME in the zshrc file, or should I make other settings?

[michaelb]

I think you should specify the XDG_CACHE_DIR in your shell's rc configuration file, but preferably make it point to the value of the default cache directory on macos (google says it's ~/Library/Caches, and if you find a sniprun subdir there it's confirmed).

I'll fix the search path for the infofile, but the above should fix the issue in the meantime

[rileychc]

It isn't useful.

[michaelb]

XDG_CACHE_HOME 😉
Sorry, I also keep making the mistake

[michaelb]

The last release also search for the temporary SnipInfo file in ~/Library/cache now, so it should be automatically fixed