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If you don't have git installed, using M-p from counsel-find-file raises a user-error #1216

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oantolin opened this issue Sep 27, 2017 · 3 comments

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oantolin commented Sep 27, 2017

On a computer where I don´t have git installed, every time I try to use M-p from counsel-find-file (which runs ivy-previous-history-element) I get an error message that says 'Required program "git" not found in your path'.

The reason this message occurs is that counsel adds counsel-emacs-url-p and counsel-github-url-p to the variable ivy-ffap-url-functions which is used by ivy--cd-maybe. Those functions use counsel-require-program to check that git is installed and produce an error message if it is not.

Is this really the best way to handle this? I'd prefer to have counsel-emacs-url-p and counsel-github-url-p just silently return nil if the use doesn't have git, rather than see an error message every time I try to use the history in counsel-find-file. Or maybe have counsel check for git before putting counsel-emacs-url-p and counsel-github-url-p in ivy-ffap-url-functions. The point is a gitless person should just not get the extra functionality instead of being constantly scolded. :P

@oantolin oantolin changed the title If you don't have git installed and have counsel-find-file-at-point set to t, using M-p from counsel-find-file raises a user-error If you don't have git installed, using M-p from counsel-find-file raises a user-error Sep 27, 2017
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oantolin commented Sep 27, 2017

I am currently working around this by adding this to my init.el:

(unless (executable-find "git")
    (setq ivy-ffap-url-functions
          (remq 'counsel-emacs-url-p
                (remq 'counsel-github-url-p
                      ivy-ffap-url-functions))))

(I have git on some but not all the computers I use Emacs on.)

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abo-abo commented Sep 27, 2017

Thanks, I added something similar to your workaround for counsel.el.

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Looks perfect, thanks!

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