kakoune: Fix :doc when using plugins

So, kakoune takes the documentation shown for `:doc` from
`$KAKOUNE_RUNTIME/share/kak/doc`. Unfortunately, it seems
that it will ignore files that are symlinks. This is arguably
a bug in kakoune, we workaround it for now by copying the
content of the docfiles.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/wrapper.nix
index 6d6e23f1dac9..7ac56d9cb1e0 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/wrapper.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/wrapper.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ in
       # unless explicitly overriden with KAKOUNE_RUNTIME
       rm "$out/bin/kak"
       makeWrapper "${kakoune}/bin/kak" "$out/bin/kak" --set KAKOUNE_RUNTIME "$out/share/kak"
+
+      # currently kakoune ignores doc files if they are symlinks, so workaround by
+      # copying doc files over, so they become regular files...
+      mkdir "$out/DELETE_ME"
+      mv "$out/share/kak/doc" "$out/DELETE_ME"
+      cp -r --dereference "$out/DELETE_ME/doc" "$out/share/kak"
+      rm -Rf "$out/DELETE_ME"
     '';
 
     meta = kakoune.meta // { priority = (kakoune.meta.priority or 0) - 1; };