Allow execution of commands send data through STDIN

[pabloferz]

I was trying to set the installation of my vim plugins in the install.conf.yamlfile. Unfortunately, that does not work.

I am using vim-plug to handle vim plugins, so I added vim +PlugInstall +qall as a shell command, but it fails. I believe that is because of this line

ret = subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True, stdin=stdin, stdout=stdout,
                      stderr=stderr, cwd=self._base_directory)

in the commandrunner.py script. A possible solution would be setting stdin=subprocess.PIPE, but I'm not sure if that posses a problem in some scenario.

[pabloferz]

By the way, thank you for the tool. I love the simplicity of it.

[bchretien]

I am also using dotbot to do the exact same thing. Here's how you can do it:

- shell:
    # Install/update vim plugins
    -
      command: vim -Nu ~/.vimrc.plugins +PlugUpdate +qall &> /dev/null
      stdin: true
      stdout: true
      stderr: true

(my vim-plug entries are in a separate .vimrc.plugins, but using a unique .vimrc would not change anything)

If you don't want it to be done silently in the background, remove the /dev/null redirection.

[anishathalye]

Thanks for answering the question @bchretien!

@pabloferz: glad the tool is working for you :)

[pabloferz]

I see. I missed the part of the README where it says you can enable stdin, stdout and stderr.

Thank you both!