Installing non existent packages causes weird buffer mangling

[savq]

Installing non existent packages causes weird buffer mangling

[savq]

Paq clones packages via HTTPS (instead of SSH or some other protocol) , since you don't really need write permissions. Still, if you haven't set up git to cache your credentials, it'll complain when you try to clone a repo from github.

See Why is Git always asking for my password? and Caching your GitHub credentials in Git

Also see #4

[karbica]

That all makes sense. But that's not what this issue is addressing.

This issue is about the buffer getting mutated where the cursor is when a non existent package is attempted to be installed. On line 28 you can see the text about the username. Why is it writing text to my buffer? It should have asked as that a prompt in the command line.

[savq]

I haven't been able to reproduce the buffer changing. Paq doesn't write to buffers, it always write to stdin.

Paq does assume git processes won't wait for user input, that's what credentials must be set before using it. And if that condition is met, it'll just write paq [n/n] failed to install foo.

[DFreds]

I was also able to reproduce this. In a buffer, I did a PaqInstall and accidentally had 'nvim-lua/plenary'; instead of 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim';. Wherever my cursor was in the buffer, it put in Username for https://github.com': text and locked up the instance of neovim. Not a huge deal.... but I could see it tripping up people if they make any minor mistakes on the plugins.