why does Bob fail when Neovim is running ?

[antoineeestevaaan]

i'm starting to use Bob and i was wondering what the rationale behind the following error is when running something like bob use nightly

ERROR Error: Neovim is currently running. Please close it before switching versions.

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i didn't find anything in the issue tracker nor the discussions, so i thought i could open this 😋

[MordechaiHadad]

Bob operates on a proxy executable basis so the neovim binary in $PATH isn't actually a neovim binary, and whenever you run use/update you need to update this file which some platforms don't allow you to edit a file while its running.

Soon there will be a way to disable this check but this also means you know what you are doing otherwise you will get an OS file is busy error.

[antoineeestevaaan]

Bob operates on a proxy executable basis so the neovim binary in $PATH isn't actually a neovim binary, and whenever you run use/update you need to update this file which some platforms don't allow you to edit a file while its running.

aah yeah ok i see !

Soon there will be a way to disable this check but this also means you know what you are doing otherwise you will get an OS file is busy error.

okey nice, i guess in my case, the worst would be overwritting some symlink or Neovim runtime 😉

thanks for the quick reply 🙏