"fish_plugins" file not found: "update"

[KerickHowlett]

In my attempt to experiment and personalize some dotfiles that I forked, I came across an issue when the bootstrap script attempts to install/update the list of fisher plugins after creating a symlink for them.

I'm not sure why this is happening, because when I copy the file (or even when I create a symlink using cp -s [plugin_filepath] it works just fine; however, I don't know too much about what makes cp -s different from ln -s, and I'd rather not overcomplicate the link_file script function that's embedded in the script.

I'm not sure if fisher needs an update or if there's a better way to go about creating the symlink or if this is just a plain & simple bug, so I'm hoping someone could shed some light on it.

To recreate the bug, go to my forked repo HERE, and then enter the following commands (assuming you're already running fish and not bash or zsh):

cd ./script
fish bootstrap.fish

I'd also recommend taking advantage of the devcontainer I have set up, so you don't end up muddying up your own system—assuming you have Docker installed and are using Visual Studio Code.

[jorgebucaran]

Make sure that script installs or updates only when Fish is interactive status is-interactive.

[KerickHowlett]

It still doesn't work outside the script.

Initially, when I thought it was just the script, I tried running the update command manually with the symlink still present, and I ran into the same error.

[Susensio]

Could be related to #741

[jorgebucaran]

Hey @KerickHowlett

Just had a chance to circle back to this and noticed that your dotfiles.fish isn't active anymore. It's a bit tricky to figure out if it's a Fisher issue or not. It might be related to that bootstrap script you mentioned, but it could be on our end too.

That error pops up when the fish_plugins is missing. It's possible that it happened because Fisher wasn't installed following the instructions we provided.

[KerickHowlett]

I think I may have deleted it at some point, because I scrapped it in favor of something else (that I've yet to start on). lol

It was forked from someone else's repo, however; I don't know if they ever had issues with it — probably not — but here's the link.

[jorgebucaran]

It seems that Carlos hasn't bumped into this either (caarlos0/dotfiles.fish#23).

I'm gonna close this now because there's nothing actionable we can do at this point, and it's not even clear if it's a Fisher issue. #741 might actually fix it, but I'm not sure how I'll tackle that issue yet, so I don't wanna keep this open depending on it.

[KerickHowlett]

It's all good. Admittedly, I forgot I even posted this issue; it was so long ago. 😅