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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua, neovim, vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the issue by running a toggleterm task twice, then inspect lua/asyncrun/toggleterm.lua at lines 9, 14, and 23 and the Telescope entry point at lua/telescope/_extensions/asynctasks.lua:42. Done means the task runs again without errors both with the default behavior and with vim.g.asynctasks_term_reuse = 1.

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Description

If I use toggleterm as pos I can run the task only once. The second time I get the following error:

E5108: Error executing lua ...asynctasks.nvim/lua/telescope/_extensions/asynctasks.lua:42: Vim(lua):E5108: Error executing lua ...pack/paqs/start/asyncrun.vim/lua/asyncrun/toggleterm.lua:9: Terminal existed
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'error'
        ...pack/paqs/start/asyncrun.vim/lua/asyncrun/toggleterm.lua:9: in function 'reset'
        ...pack/paqs/start/asyncrun.vim/lua/asyncrun/toggleterm.lua:23: in function 'runner'
        [string ":lua"]:1: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'cmd'
        ...asynctasks.nvim/lua/telescope/_extensions/asynctasks.lua:42: in function 'key_func'
        ...ack/paqs/start/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/mappings.lua:242: in function 'execute_keymap'
        [string ":lua"]:1: in main chunk
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'cmd'
        ...asynctasks.nvim/lua/telescope/_extensions/asynctasks.lua:42: in function 'key_func'
        ...ack/paqs/start/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/mappings.lua:242: in function 'execute_keymap'
        [string ":lua"]:1: in main chunk

If iI set vim.g.asynctasks_term_reuse = 1, I get this error

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E5108: Error executing lua ...asynctasks.nvim/lua/telescope/_extensions/asynctasks.lua:42: Vim(lua):E5108: Error executing lua ...pack/paqs/start/asyncrun.vim/lua/asyncrun/toggleterm.lua:14: Expected lua string

stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'nvim_del_keymap'
        ...pack/paqs/start/asyncrun.vim/lua/asyncrun/toggleterm.lua:14: in function 'reset'
        ...pack/paqs/start/asyncrun.vim/lua/asyncrun/toggleterm.lua:23: in function 'runner'
        [string ":lua"]:1: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'cmd'
        ...asynctasks.nvim/lua/telescope/_extensions/asynctasks.lua:42: in function 'key_func'
        ...ack/paqs/start/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/mappings.lua:242: in function 'execute_keymap'
        [string ":lua"]:1: in main chunk
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'cmd'
        ...asynctasks.nvim/lua/telescope/_extensions/asynctasks.lua:42: in function 'key_func'
        ...ack/paqs/start/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/mappings.lua:242: in function 'execute_keymap'
        [string ":lua"]:1: in main chunk
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