Bug with `Path:mkdir()` on Windows
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- lua
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- operating-systems, tooling
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Start in lua/plenary/path.lua around line 497 and trace the Path:new(...):mkdir { parents = true, exist_ok = true } entry point on Windows. Reproduce the reported call and verify that mkdir no longer prepends the Neovim configuration path to the absolute Windows path and succeeds.
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Description
This came up in https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim/issues/88 and I think I've tracked it down to a bug with the path module here.
Running:
Path:new("C:/Users/myhome/my/local/obsidian/repo/"):mkdir { parents = true, exist_ok = true }
fails on Windows with
E5108: Error executing lua ...site\pack\packer\start\plenary.nvim/lua/plenary/path.lua:497: We couldn't mkdir: C:\Users\myhome\AppData\Local\nvim\lua\C:/Users/myhome/my/local/obsidian/repo/
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'error'
...site\pack\packer\start\plenary.nvim/lua/plenary/path.lua:497: in function 'mkdir'
[string ":source (no file)"]:601: in main chunk
Note that C:\Users\myhome\AppData\Local\nvim\lua is the path to the users configuration files where the call to mkdir() originates. So it looks like at some point mkdir() mangles the path by prepending this directory.
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