[MacOS Catalina] Only works if run from terminal, asks for unnecessary permissions about uivonim HOT 5 CLOSED

I've since upgraded to Big Sur. Out of curiosity, I tested and the issue still occurred on the version of uivonim I had installed when posting this issue. Downloaded the latest release with your fix, and it did indeed resolve the issue. Looking forward to giving it a proper try. Thank you for the fix :)

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The permissions are due to Uivonim looking in your home folder and traversing subfolders looking for files. (Including the folders where macOS stores the mentioned objects -- it's not accessing them directly!) I'll look into where this is done in the code and whether that can be made more targeted. Not sure where the network connections are coming from -- maybe Electron/Chromium? (I have not observed this behavior myself, though.)

The other issue is related to environment variables: If you start Uivonim from the command line, it inherits these from the terminal shell. If you do it from the Finder, these variables aren't set by default. In particular, these include PATH and the LC_* variables -- if the former doesn't contain where neovim is installed, you'll see exactly what you observe. (vimR has similar problems, although not with the former since it links to a static libnvim.)

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Try adding

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
launchctl setenv PATH $PATH

to your .bash_profile and restarting (just the Dock with osascript -e 'tell app "Dock" to quit' is enough).

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@DanielPower 48fc9e2 should fix the problem with uivonim getting stuck/not loading (mostly; there appears to be a new issue where the UI doesn't fully appear until you press a character, although that might just be on my end).

As for the problem with asking for those random permissions, I don't appear to be experiencing this on Big Sur, so it may just be a Catalina thing (although I really don't know); regardless, you should be able to safely deny permission to those things. If not having those permissions does break the editor somehow though, then I'll have to look through the code to try and find out why.

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@DanielPower No problem, thank you for opening the issue! And of course, if you come across any other bugs, problems, etc., feel free to open an issue or ask about it on Gitter, and I’ll do my best to help.

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