fix(startup): make recovery mode work without --headless (#24477)

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/test/functional/core/remote_spec.lua b/test/functional/core/remote_spec.lua
index 39b1ee2f5f..a0ec748446 100644
--- a/test/functional/core/remote_spec.lua
+++ b/test/functional/core/remote_spec.lua
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ describe('Remote', function()
     local function run_remote(...)
       set_session(server)
       local addr = funcs.serverlist()[1]
-      local client_argv = { nvim_prog, '--clean', '--headless', '--server', addr, ... }
 
       -- Create an nvim instance just to run the remote-invoking nvim. We want
       -- to wait for the remote instance to exit and calling jobwait blocks
@@ -52,7 +51,7 @@ describe('Remote', function()
       local client_starter = spawn(new_argv(), false, nil, true)
       set_session(client_starter)
       -- Call jobstart() and jobwait() in the same RPC request to reduce flakiness.
-      eq({ 0 }, exec_lua([[return vim.fn.jobwait({ vim.fn.jobstart(..., {
+      eq({ 0 }, exec_lua([[return vim.fn.jobwait({ vim.fn.jobstart({...}, {
         stdout_buffered = true,
         stderr_buffered = true,
         on_stdout = function(_, data, _)
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ describe('Remote', function()
         on_stderr = function(_, data, _)
           _G.Remote_stderr = table.concat(data, '\n')
         end,
-      }) })]], client_argv))
+      }) })]], nvim_prog, '--clean', '--headless', '--server', addr, ...))
       local res = exec_lua([[return { _G.Remote_stdout, _G.Remote_stderr }]])
       client_starter:close()
       set_session(server)