Shims for NVM

[jalcine]

Having a shim for nvm (and others like node) would make it possible to use NVM under Vim (since Vim doesn't have the most elegant solution for loading in shell functions as pseudo-executables). This could help projects like Tern.

Caveats: Other things like the binaries used by node might not be discoverable immediately by node (might be wrong, working on PR to confirm this).

[jalcine]

It looks like the shim could just source in nvm/nvm.sh and pass it its arguments to nvm. Again, working on PR with tests.

[koenpunt]

What about nvm-exec?

[ljharb]

If a minimal PR can be made, great! However, please also consider creating a separate nvm.vim project if your changes might make more sense kept separately.

[jalcine]

@koenpunt That looks like a good basis to work with.

What it looks like is that shims have to be available via the $PATH variable. Took me a while to notice how that worked with projects like rbenv. I want to keep this as small as possible, for maintainability's sake.

[matt-oakes]

For anyone who sees this in the future, you can set this up yourself by creating a file in /usr/local/bin/node with these contents:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
~/.nvm/nvm-exec $@

This assumes that the .nvm directory is in your home folder (the default). Also make sure to set executable permissions with chmod +x /usr/local/bin/node.