How to avoid the question "Add bob-managed Neovim binary to your $PATH automatically?" in scripts

[michaelrommel]

I install bob automatically via a bootstrap script via cargo. After it is installed I want to install the nightly version of neovim and activate it. The path to bob's nvim-bin directory is added automatically, but is available only after the script ends.

I use the commands:

if ! bob --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        echo "Installing bob (neovim version manager)"
        cargo install --locked bob-nvim
fi

if ! nvim --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        echo "Installing neovim (nightly)"
        bob use nightly
fi

but there seems no flag, that avoids that question in the title and the bootstrap gets stuck.

Any idea, how to avoid this?

Thanks,

Michael.

[MordechaiHadad]

Hello, I am not sure how your bootstrap script works, but inside of the bob config you can set add_neovim_binary_to_path to either true or false and it will disable this prompt.

Edit: I will have to add this field to the docs as it seems i forgot about it.

[michaelrommel]

Ah, ok, I have at the moment no config file, just running with the defaults. The relevant portion is quoted above. It will just compile bob, put it under .cargo/bin which is already on the path and then run bob use nightly. I had hoped, that some kind of -f or -s flag would allow to skip the question. I will check this out and make this part of the installation or manually add the path in the bootstrap script, this should also then avoid the question...