gerardog/gsudo

Issue: Nano and vim executables get stuck when opened with gsudo on cmd

AngelAGBL opened this issue · 5 comments

AngelAGBL commented

Issue Description

When I try to execute nano or vim from msys2 (yes, these programs are added to my PATH) with privileges on cmd they get stuck, this doesn't happen on powershell:

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open cmd
  2. Execute gsudo nano or gsudo vim

Screenshots

Nano Vim
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This issue doesn't get solved using --direct mode, the only way to make this work is executing:
gsudo cmd /c nano
gsudo cmd /c vim
It would be useful to execute them directly with gsudo, so I'll thank you if you'll give it some solution

Context:

  • Windows version: Win11 22H2 - Spanish
  • gsudo version: v2.4.0 or below
gerardog commented

I don't know what is the root cause of the problem, but here is a workaround that will add the cmd /c automatically:

Please run:

gsudo config ExceptionList = "notepad.exe;powershell.exe;vim.exe;nano.exe;"

Thank you.

gerardog commented

Please don't close the issue. I'll close it after, at least, adding vim and nano by default in the exceptionlist.

AngelAGBL commented

Ok, thanks a lot, that works

gerardog commented

How have you installed vim and nano on windows? using a windows installer? using git-bash?
Where are your vim.exe and nano.exe files located?
(on cmd, run which vim)

AngelAGBL commented

They are both installed from the msys2 project (https://www.msys2.org/) and are located in the C:\msys64\usr\bin directory