alias vi to neovide and something unexpected will happen.

[LeeeSe]

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fish, version 3.6.4

macOS14 alacritty and rio or Terminal.app all have this problem

when i alias

alias vi="neovide"

when i input vi / ,the neovide GUI will automatically pop up

But when I type neovide /, nothing happens.

[faho]

Fish vi completions check if your vi is really vim by running vi --version:

fish-shell/share/completions/vi.fish

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	# Check if vi is really vim
	if vi --version >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
	complete -c vi -w vim
	else
	complete -c vi -s s -d 'Suppress all interactive user feedback'

It appears neovide just ignores --version. This isn't really something we can support, in general fish's completions assume that a thing called "vi" will behave roughly like "vi".

So the solution is to simply: Don't alias neovide to "vi".

If you wish to take this upstream, tell neovide to support "--version" by printing something to the terminal and exiting.

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Alternatively, fix all your problems with "alias" with this one weird trick and just use an abbreviation instead:

abbr vi neovide

[LeeeSe]

Thank you for your reply, I understand.