Cannot recognize symbolic links on Windows

[endereyewxy]

Summary

File pickers and :open cannot recognize symbolic links. :write simply overwites them.

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. Create symbolic linked files:

   New-Item a.txt
   New-Item -Type SymbolicLink -Target b.txt -Path .\a.txt

   This should create an empty a.txt and a symbolic link b.txt under the current working directory.

2. hx

3. :open b.txt

4. Type something, and then :write

I expected this to happen:

As b.txt is a symbolic link to a.txt, modifications should apply to both files.

Instead, this happened:

The original symbolic link is overwritten, and b.txt is now a normal file. a.txt remains unchanged. BTW, the file picker won't recognize b.txt at the beginning.

Helix log

Nothing interesting in the logs.

Platform

Windows

Terminal Emulator

Windows Terminal

Installation Method

source

Helix Version

24.03-121-g35d0ae7c

[woojiq]

This may be a regression/side effect of #9330 :|

[pascalkuthe]

Not really, normally writes to symolik links are handeled transparently by the OS.

This is a regression caused by #9236. @kirawi I think you need to cannonicalizing before writing the file, same issue may even occur on Linux.