Cannot start neovide

[manfredlotz]

The following is working fine

run-or-raise 'class = "neovide"' neovide '--maximized'

Now I want to add: -listen '/tmp/nvimsocket for neovim, and tried

run-or-raise 'class = "neovide"' neovide  -- "--maximized -- --listen /tmp/nvimsocket"

but nothing happens.

Not sure if I am making a mistake here.

[Mange]

run-or-raise 'class = "neovide"' neovide  -- "--maximized -- --listen /tmp/nvimsocket"

It could be because you're terminating the CLI arguments twice with -- or wrapping all the arguments in a single string, making them all a single argument. Try

run-or-raise 'class = "neovide"' neovide  -- --maximized --listen /tmp/nvimsocket

See if that helps.

[manfredlotz]

No, this doesn't help either. Running you suggestion is like my way above. Nothing happens.

[Soft]

Could you try the following command and see if that works

run-or-raise 'class = "neovide"' neovide --maximized -- --listen /tmp/nvimsocket

[manfredlotz]

Yes, this is working fine. Thanks a lot.

So, what is the moral of the story? Don't use quotes at all for the command arguments?

[Soft]

run-or-raise receives two or more command line arguments where the first one is the expression used to match windows, the second one the command to execute if a suitable windows was not found, and any remaining arguments are passed to that command.

This means that in the case of your first attempt

run-or-raise 'class = "neovide"' neovide  -- "--maximized -- --listen /tmp/nvimsocket"

neovide would have received the following arguments:

1. --
2. --maximized -- --listen /tmp/nvimsocket

The important bit here is that it wil be neovide receiving the first -- argument, run-or-raise doesn't interpret that in any special way. Looking at neovide's help, it seems it will pass any arguments following -- to neovim. This means that here neovim will then receive the second argument --maximized -- --listen /tmp/nvimsocket. Since the argument was wrapped in quotes neovim will receive it as a single argument and I assume it does not know what to do with that and exits with an error.

[manfredlotz]

Thanks a lot for your explanations which make much sense.