Problem with the file chooser argument about joshuto HOT 9 OPEN

I didn't know about this feature, and because I'm very interested in it, I can see if I find some clues

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Hi!
Try this:

joshuto --file-chooser --output-file ~/my-temp-file

The selected file is written to the given temp-file.

It's for example used in this NeoVim plugin, which add Joshuto as a way to open a file.

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Ah yes that seems to work thanks. It does still exit with an error though but I guess as long as it works it's fine.

And that's funny, thanks for sharing that plugin, that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking to do

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Hmmm, not exactly an error, I guess: https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto/blob/6cabeb9c8308e5debc9eda3ef8dadda268545156/src/commands/quit.rs#L22C20-L22C20

If this is really not documented somewhere, I agree, it should be...

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I don't know much about exit codes to be honest, but shouldn't it be 0 if there was no problem with the operation?

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Hmmm, not exactly an error, I guess: https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto/blob/6cabeb9c8308e5debc9eda3ef8dadda268545156/src/commands/quit.rs#L22C20-L22C20

If this is really not documented somewhere, I agree, it should be...

Yeah, I should document it somewhere

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I don't know much about exit codes to be honest, but shouldn't it be 0 if there was no problem with the operation?

Yeah, usually 0 means success. Non-zero means an error, but can also be used to communicate other things

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Should this be println! and not eprintln!? Personally, I'd rather have this sent to stdout than stderr. Also, for some reason the file list doesn't even output to stderr as-is, but when I recompile with println! instead, the files display to stdout as expected.

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Should this be println! and not eprintln!? Personally, I'd rather have this sent to stdout than stderr. Also, for some reason the file list doesn't even output to stderr as-is, but when I recompile with println! instead, the files display to stdout as expected.

joshuto/src/main.rs

Line 219 in 2536838

eprintln!("{}", file.display());

ratatui/termion (not sure which one) doesn't allow for joshuto's output to be piped.

This makes it a bit tricky to get joshuto to work with shell scripts.
Because you can't just do file_path=$(joshuto --file-chooser) because the output is piped.

So the only other option is to pipe it to a file.

joshuto --file-chooser > some_file.txt

But this won't work either because joshuto outputs to stdout, which gets piped to the file.

So the only sensible solution is to have

joshuto --file-chooser 2> some_file.txt

Hope this clears things up!

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