search fails on macOS 10.15

[adamnbowen]

I'm getting a strange error when I try to use the search:

$ neuron search
envsubst: invalid option -- 'n'
Try 'envsubst --help' for more information.

I'm not familiar enough with how the project is built, but I just upgraded to 1.0.1.0 a few minutes ago (search didn't work yesterday for me, but I imagine that's because of the static linking issue resolved in 1.0.1.0).

Let me know if you need more help getting a reproduction of this issue: I only have a handful of notes in my ~/zettelkasten directory, so it's probably not a problem with scale.

[srid]

Crap. This is what you get for stepping outside of Nix (and the guarantees of staticWhich). Reverting in #431

Proper fix coming later.

[srid]

Revert fixed it. Proper fix in #432

[fiatjaf]

I'm experiencing this on binary release 1.0.1.0. Was it supposed to be fixed there?

[adamnbowen]

I'm experiencing this on binary release 1.0.1.0. Was it supposed to be fixed there?

That's the release this issue is talking about, so it was not fixed yet in that release.

[srid]

@fiatjaf That's a different issue. You can't bake runtime dependencies like fzf and envsubst (nix-env -i envsubst should resolve your issue) into a static binary. If you are using the static binary, it is up to you as the user to install the runtime dependencies manually (we should document this).

Or just use Nix, so you don't have to deal with this annoyance.

[srid]

Clarified the static binary limitations here: https://neuron.zettel.page/install-static.html

[jmiskovic]

I'm getting same error message on Fedora 32.

Pulling in whole package manager for single tool is not an option for me. Resolving dependencies is ok if there is a clear list of dependencies, preferably with minimal versions.

Going from project.nix those are: fzf, ripgrep, gawk, bat, findutils and envsubst. I have all of those installed and I'm still getting the error. Looks like envsubst is referring to this repo which seems completely unrelated to my OS-installed tool?

[fiatjaf]

I have fzf, bat and envsubst (is there any other dependencies included in the "etc"?), but still my neuron search fails:

envsubst: invalid option -- 'n'
Try 'envsubst --help' for more information.

Maybe I have a different envsubst version than needed? The one I have is envsubst (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.20.2.

(Sorry for poisoning your life with non-nix issues.)

[jmiskovic]

My workaround was downloading release of envsubst, putting it into ~/tools and adding this to .bashrc to make sure it is used instead of gettext one:

alias neuron='PATH=~/tools:$PATH neuron'

[fiatjaf]

Ok, I did download a new envsubst release and now it opens the fzf search screen, but it is not populated. There are zero zettels in there! And I'm in my zettelkasten directory. It is also empty if I specify -d.

[srid]

One way to workaround this problem is to get rid of envsubst entirely, and resolve the environment variable in Haskell, right about here:

neuron/neuron/src/app/Neuron/CLI/Search.hs

Line 37 in f760bdc

bool "echo" "$EDITOR" searchEdit