Why do I need sudo to install grammars?

[maxtremblay]

Summary

When I run hx --grammar fetch, I get an error related to permission. I can do it with sudo, but this seems a bit weird to me. At least, it is not documented.

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. hx --grammar fetch

I expected this to happen:

Successfully fetching all grammar sources.

Instead, this happened:

...

Error: Failed to fetch some grammar(s)

Caused by:
    0: Could not create grammar directory "/usr/share/helix/runtime/grammars/sources/rust"
    1: Permission denied (os error 13)

Note that the last value in the path, rust in the example, is arbitrary, and I get other languages depending on which one fail first.

Helix log

The log file is empty.

Platform

Fedora 35

Terminal Emulator

alacritty 0.10.1

Helix Version

helix 22.03 (d4e45fd)

[archseer]

You shouldn't need to sudo (and I don't recommend it), but in this case your package is installed into /usr/share so we're not able to upgrade those grammars. I guess there needs to be some notion of "system" runtime provided by the package vs user runtime in ~/.config/helix/runtim