Add a symlink for "stable" to point to the right version

[wldcordeiro]

Currently I'm using nvm to manage my installed node versions and I use the stable release. One of my use cases is that I use linters that Sublime Text looks for, each time the stable release updates (say from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1) there's a new version folder and I have to update the path Sublime Text looks at for the linter, if there were a symlink for stable I could just point to it like this

paths": {
            "linux": [
                "~/npm/bin/",
                "/usr/local/bin/",
                "/home/wldcordeiro/.nvm/versions/node/stable/bin/"
            ],

[ljharb]

So, first, "stable" is not a concept that exists anymore. All versions of things that follow semver are stable, so io.js, and node 4.0 and later, are always "stable".

As to your primary request: this has been tried before - however, nvm requires a shell environment. It's simply not appropriate to use it in an editor/IDE. See #734, #499, #355, #89.

I understand manually updating npm bin -g in your editor is annoying, but since nvm is not for using a system-wide version of node, there's not a great solution here, unless you can get Sublime to actually source nvm, nvm use node, and then use the resulting npm bin -g or PATH.

[ghuser]

Wouldn't supporting hooks be possible solution to this issue?

Then someone could decide whether to add a command (e.g on the nvn-use hook) like this:

ln -sf $(dirname $(npm bin -g)) /opt/node