Runme doesn't execute commands in the current directory

[paolino]

I cannot execute the snippets of a markdown file, which is sitting in a different directory, in the current working directory.

paolino in 🌐 nixos in /tmp/runme-i2e via ❄️   impure (shell) 
❯ tree
.
├── defdir
│   └── test.md
└── rundir

3 directories, 1 file

paolino in 🌐 nixos in /tmp/runme-i2e via ❄️   impure (shell) 
❯ cat defdir/test.md 
> ```bash {"name" : "test"}
> pwd
> ```

paolino in 🌐 nixos in /tmp/runme-i2e via ❄️   impure (shell) 
❯ cd rundir/

paolino in 🌐 nixos in /tmp/runme-i2e/rundir via ❄️   impure (shell) 
❯ runme --filename ../defdir/test.md --chdir $(pwd) run test
/tmp/runme-i2e/defdir

I don't think I should need --chdir ... for this behavior, but it doesn't work. What should I do ? Is it possible ?

[sourishkrout]

Hi @paolino. Thanks for reporting this issue. Please note that runme treats your repo as a "project" versus individual files.

The current working directory is anchored based on the file's location. This allows Runme to be true to the directory hierarchy across client modalities (CLI, notebook, CI/CD).

If you want to modify a markdown file/document's current working directory, that's possible via the document-global directive or on at the individual block/cell. E.g. if you'd kept all markdowns in a ./docs directory but wanted to execute it in the root of the repo, you'd add the following frontmatter to the file.

---
cwd: ..
---

[rest of markdown]

So in a nutshell, the working directory where the CLI runme run ran from is irrelevant. This is intentional to make commands like runme run test, runme run buid, etc work anywhere.

Please let me know if you have more questions!