Hey @BlakeWilliams 👋🏻

I found an issue with my vim copy/paste config. Perhaps the issue is not in vim, but in rdm.

To illustrate, say I am on codepsaces, in a vim buffer with the following content:

one two three
four five
six seven

I am in normal mode, and my cursor is on the "f" from "five". I type yw (yank word), and that should copy the word "five". Then I type P to paste before my cursor, and this is the expected result:

one two three
four fivefive
six seven

But this is the actual result:

one two three
five
four five
six seven

It seems like copy behaves as if I had done a yy, or Y (copy line).

This is my vim config:

https://github.com/mjacobus/dotfiles/blob/3f60925fe661e8e12ddf27a4c235cda4ba849efe/neovim/.config/nvim/config.vim#L403-L410

" Forward clipboard in a codespace
if !empty($CODESPACES)
  let g:clipboard = {"name": "rdm", "copy": {}, "paste": {}}
  let g:clipboard.copy["+"] = ["rdm", "copy"]
  let g:clipboard.paste["+"] = ["rdm", "paste"]
  let g:clipboard.copy["*"] = ["rdm", "copy"]
  let g:clipboard.paste["*"] = ["rdm", "paste"]
endif

Also I played with rdm outside vim, to see if I found any clue.

I will dig some more later, and share what I found.

This adds support for running rdm server on linux machines by:

• replacing macos-specific clipboard and URL-opening commands with an abstraction and using build constraints to select the correct implementation. Specifically pbcopy/pbpaste becomes xclip and open becomes xdg-open. One advantage of this approach is that the binary now only builds on platforms where it is capable of running.
• fixing a path concatenation bug that caused illegal log paths to be generated.

Cheers!

edit: By request, 47d1953b2ace26f89856f08ab12a707fa53045c9 also introduces a new interface for all OS-specific functionality. I called it ~hostservice.Service~ hostservice.Runner with a default implementation called hostservice.HostService.

Hi!

I love RDM, it has improved my workflow with codespaces a lot and it was easy and simple to use. Thanks a lot for writing it!

This PR adds a small snippet to the docs explaining how to configure the clipboard on Neovim using Lua instead of VimL.

I've extracted it form my own dotfiles: https://github.com/franciscoj/dotfiles/blob/8ab7f992e00f076a5ed8b238d48524aef0ed3dbd/dot_config/nvim/lua/options.lua#L65-L77

Cheers!

Sometimes the server dies without removing the socket file. When this happens the server will fail to start even though there is no running server.

Instead of failing immediately, the server command now attempts to talk to the server running on the socket. If it succeeds, it exits since a server is already running. If it fails, it removes the socket file and starts the server.

Currently we read from stdin and always append a newline due to scanner.Scan splitting on newlines. This isn't always correct, since input doesn't always have a newline.

This resolves the issue by using bufio.Reader.ReadBytes which reads up-to the delimiter and includes it, preserving newlines.

Fixes https://github.com/BlakeWilliams/remote-development-manager/issues/6

Sometimes SSH_TTY and SSH_CLIENT aren't set when in an ssh session, so this checks three different potential environment variables that indicate you're in a remote session.

• SSH_TTY
• SSH_CLIENT
• SSH_CONNECTION

Given how the initial spike turned out there wasn't much value using a socket directly so this replaces the custom protocol with HTTP since JSON is the message format either way.

This adds a new service subcommand that sets up rdm to run as a launchd service on MacOS.

$ rdm service
Manage this program as a launchd system service.
  Status of gui/501/com.blakewilliams.rdm:
    Install state: [Installed]
    Run state:     [Running]

Usage:
  rdm service [command]

Available Commands:
  install     Configures rdm to run on boot as a MacOS LaunchAgent.
  start       Starts the launchd service.
  stop        Stops the launchd service.
  uninstall   Removes a previously installed LaunchAgent installation.

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for service

Use "rdm service [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Here's a quick demo:

I originally wrote all the launchd management plumbing in this PR but after a while I realized it was kind of unrelated to this project so I spun it into a new library at https://github.com/brasic/launchd.

:wave: Hello! This utility greatly improves the quality of my life, thanks for making it and sharing it!

I've run into a rough edge that I'd thought I'd capture in an issue.

While having a running rdm server in the background, I close my laptop. When I open the laptop again, the rdm server is unreachable.

In a codespace, I'll try to view a PR on github and get the following:

% gh pr view --web
Opening <snip> in your browser.
2022/09/14 14:03:41 Can not send command: could not send command: Post "http://unix///tmprdm.sock": dial unix /tmprdm.sock: connect: no such file or directory

If I check on my host machine (macOS) and try to to stop the running server, I get the following error:

~ % rdm stop
2022/09/14 10:03:50 Can not send command: could not send command: Post "http://unix///var/folders/5n/c1kfd01d4p50ddx07vn0zbl40000gn/T/rdm.sock": dial unix /var/folders/5n/c1kfd01d4p50ddx07vn0zbl40000gn/T/rdm.sock: connect: connection refused
~ % rm -rf /var/folders/5n/c1kfd01d4p50ddx07vn0zbl40000gn/T/rdm.sock
~ % rdm server &
[1] 11953
~ %

My current solution is to rm -rf <path to the socket> and restart the server. It would be great if the server could persist, or if it stopped itself when the machine went into a state where the socket gets "lost" (I know almost nothing about unix sockets or what might be happening).

If you're open to it, I might try to put a PR together in my spare time as a project to start learning go, but I will be very slow to do this 🕺

• Adds custom commands that can be run from the client on the server process
• Adds process manager so processes can (eventually) be managed if they are marked as long running.

TO-DO:

• [x] Add tests
• [x] Support long running commands (rdm ps, rdm kill)