Post #1094068
2026-04-12 04:58 UTC
(*weary sigh*)
Neovim has a popular addon called Mason, with which you can install other addons very easily. Except...
There were some addons it was failing to install: "Go look at this logfile for more info." (Narrator: There was no more info.)
After half a day of poking around and dropping printf()-equivalents inside Mason, I found the culprit: `npm init` in a bare directory errors out, sans clues -- not what it's supposed to do.
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@ewhac@mastodon.social 2026-04-13 22:14
Epilogue: Less than a day after reporting the bug to `npm`s maintainer, an update was pushed to Sid fixing the problem. Yay!