How to configure ALE w/ nvm or fnm?..

[busticated]

hey there 👋

thanks for an awesome tool 🙏 ❤️

i'm running into weirdness trying to get ALE to work with my nvm managed node.js runtime. i'm actually using fnm but i'm pretty sure it's the same underlying issue. when i use the brew managed node.js, things work as expected.

I see the command ALE is trying to run is:

/bin/zsh -c 'cd ''/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next'' && ''/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next/node_modules/eslint/bin/eslint.js'' -f json --stdin --stdin-filename ''/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next/packages/thing/src/commands/project/compile.js'' < ''/var/folders/c7/369898450l31qzjh1qrf9x7w0000gn/T/v3gkv3n/3/compile.js'''

...which results in:

env: node: No such file or directory

however, when i run /bin/zsh -c 'which node' in my terminal manually, i see the expected path of /Users/me/Library/Caches/fnm_multishells/64376_1653599053758/bin/node. likewise, when i run /bin/zsh -c 'node -v', i get back v12.22.12 which is correct.

i came across this suggestion in a similar issue report but adding that (set shellcmdflag=-lc) to my .vimrc didn't fix things. given the results running the default (/bin/zsh -c), i wouldn't think i'd need to tweak my vim setup but 🤷‍♂️

so, i'm stumped - any suggestions you could send my way would be very much appreciated 🙏 👍

My `ALEInfo` output

 Current Filetype: javascript
Available Linters: ['cspell', 'deno', 'eslint', 'fecs', 'flow', 'flow-language-server', 'jscs', 'jshint', 'standard', 'tsserver', 'xo']
  Enabled Linters: ['cspell', 'deno', 'eslint', 'fecs', 'flow', 'flow-language-server', 'jscs', 'jshint', 'standard', 'tsserver', 'xo']
  Ignored Linters: ['deno']
 Suggested Fixers: 
  'dprint' - Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform
  'eslint' - Apply eslint --fix to a file.
  'fecs' - Apply fecs format to a file.
  'importjs' - automatic imports for javascript
  'prettier' - Apply prettier to a file.
  'prettier_eslint', 'prettier-eslint' - Apply prettier-eslint to a file.
  'prettier_standard', 'prettier-standard' - Apply prettier-standard to a file.
  'remove_trailing_lines' - Remove all blank lines at the end of a file.
  'standard' - Fix JavaScript files using standard --fix
  'trim_whitespace' - Remove all trailing whitespace characters at the end of every line.
  'xo' - Fix JavaScript/TypeScript files using xo --fix.
 Linter Variables:

let g:ale_javascript_eslint_executable = 'eslint'
let g:ale_javascript_eslint_options = ''
let g:ale_javascript_eslint_suppress_eslintignore = 0
let g:ale_javascript_eslint_suppress_missing_config = 0
let g:ale_javascript_eslint_use_global = 0
let g:ale_javascript_fecs_executable = 'fecs'
let g:ale_javascript_fecs_use_global = 0
let g:ale_javascript_flow_executable = 'flow'
let g:ale_javascript_flow_ls_executable = 'flow'
let g:ale_javascript_flow_ls_use_global = 0
let g:ale_javascript_flow_use_global = 0
let g:ale_javascript_flow_use_home_config = 0
let g:ale_javascript_flow_use_respect_pragma = 1
let g:ale_javascript_jscs_executable = 'jscs'
let g:ale_javascript_jscs_use_global = 0
let g:ale_javascript_jshint_executable = 'jshint'
let g:ale_javascript_jshint_use_global = 0
let g:ale_javascript_standard_executable = 'standard'
let g:ale_javascript_standard_options = ''
let g:ale_javascript_standard_use_global = 0
let g:ale_javascript_tsserver_config_path = ''
let g:ale_javascript_tsserver_executable = 'tsserver'
let g:ale_javascript_tsserver_use_global = 0
let g:ale_javascript_xo_executable = 'xo'
let g:ale_javascript_xo_options = ''
let g:ale_javascript_xo_use_global = 0
 Global Variables:

let g:ale_cache_executable_check_failures = v:null
let g:ale_change_sign_column_color = 0
let g:ale_command_wrapper = ''
let g:ale_completion_delay = v:null
let g:ale_completion_enabled = 0
let g:ale_completion_max_suggestions = v:null
let g:ale_disable_lsp = 0
let g:ale_echo_cursor = 1
let g:ale_echo_msg_error_str = 'Error'
let g:ale_echo_msg_format = '%code: %%s'
let g:ale_echo_msg_info_str = 'Info'
let g:ale_echo_msg_warning_str = 'Warning'
let g:ale_enabled = 1
let g:ale_fix_on_save = 0
let g:ale_fixers = {}
let g:ale_history_enabled = 1
let g:ale_history_log_output = 1
let g:ale_keep_list_window_open = 0
let g:ale_lint_delay = 200
let g:ale_lint_on_enter = 1
let g:ale_lint_on_filetype_changed = 1
let g:ale_lint_on_insert_leave = 1
let g:ale_lint_on_save = 1
let g:ale_lint_on_text_changed = 'normal'
let g:ale_linter_aliases = {}
let g:ale_linters = {}
let g:ale_linters_explicit = 0
let g:ale_linters_ignore = {'javascript': ['deno']}
let g:ale_list_vertical = 0
let g:ale_list_window_size = 10
let g:ale_loclist_msg_format = '%code: %%s'
let g:ale_max_buffer_history_size = 20
let g:ale_max_signs = -1
let g:ale_maximum_file_size = v:null
let g:ale_open_list = 0
let g:ale_pattern_options = v:null
let g:ale_pattern_options_enabled = v:null
let g:ale_root = {}
let g:ale_set_balloons = 1
let g:ale_set_highlights = 1
let g:ale_set_loclist = 1
let g:ale_set_quickfix = 0
let g:ale_set_signs = 1
let g:ale_sign_column_always = 0
let g:ale_sign_error = '>>'
let g:ale_sign_info = '--'
let g:ale_sign_offset = 1000000
let g:ale_sign_style_error = '>>'
let g:ale_sign_style_warning = '--'
let g:ale_sign_warning = '--'
let g:ale_sign_highlight_linenrs = 0
let g:ale_statusline_format = v:null
let g:ale_type_map = {}
let g:ale_use_global_executables = v:null
let g:ale_virtualtext_cursor = 0
let g:ale_warn_about_trailing_blank_lines = 1
let g:ale_warn_about_trailing_whitespace = 1
  Command History:

(executable check - failure) jshint
(executable check - failure) standard
(executable check - failure) tsserver
(executable check - failure) xo
(executable check - failure) cspell
(finished - exit code 127) ['/bin/zsh', '-lc', 'cd ''/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next'' && ''/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next/node_modules/eslint/bin/eslint.js'' -f json --stdin --stdin-filename ''/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next/packages/thing/src/commands/project/compile.js'' < ''/var/folders/c7/369898450l31qzjh1qrf9x7w0000gn/T/v3gkv3n/3/compile.js''']

<<<OUTPUT STARTS>>>
env: node: No such file or directory
<<<OUTPUT ENDS>>>

(executable check - failure) fecs
(executable check - failure) jscs
(executable check - failure) jshint
(executable check - failure) standard
(executable check - failure) tsserver
(executable check - failure) xo
(executable check - failure) cspell
(finished - exit code 127) ['/bin/zsh', '-lc', 'cd ''/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next'' && ''/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next/node_modules/eslint/bin/eslint.js'' -f json --stdin --stdin-filename ''/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next/packages/thing/src/commands/project/compile.js'' < ''/var/folders/c7/369898450l31qzjh1qrf9x7w0000gn/T/v3gkv3n/4/compile.js''']

<<<OUTPUT STARTS>>>
env: node: No such file or directory
<<<OUTPUT ENDS>>>

(executable check - failure) fecs
(executable check - failure) jscs
(executable check - failure) jshint
(executable check - failure) standard
(executable check - failure) tsserver
(executable check - failure) xo

[cesarpachon]

hello did you find a solution?

[hsanson]

Please try running the command ALE executes to see if that provides more information of the potential issue:

cd '/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next' && '/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next/node_modules/eslint/bin/eslint.js' -f json --stdin --stdin-filename '/Users/me/code/dayjob/thing-next/packages/thing/src/commands/project/compile.js'

[cesarpachon]

hello, the error is that the ALE expects the node binary in /usr/bin/node but NVM path is different. I run GVIM from the UI, so I suppose my .bashrc is not being parsed when launching in that way. I tried different workarounds but at the end I had to create a symbolic link to the expected path.

sudo ln -s /home/cesar/.nvm/versions/node/v20.12.2/bin/node /bin/node -v