Panic when opening a symlink

[n0s4]

Summary

I have a symlink to the runtime/ in my ~/.config/helix . I wanted to open a theme in runtime/themes inside Helix so I opened the file picker. The symlink showed up but not any files within the actual folder. When I put the pointer on the runtime symlink the preview box says <File not found>. When I press enter on the symlink Helix panics:

thread 'main' panicked at 'editor.open failed: Is a directory (os error 21)', helix-term/src/ui/mod.rs:185:18
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

This doesn't seem very mysterious. I guess following symlinks just isn't implemented yet in the file picker, Helix shouldn't crash because of it though.

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. Open helix in the config folder.
2. Open the file picker and select the runtime symlink

I expected this to happen:

Helix would show the files in the folder the symlink points to.

Instead, this happened:

Helix panics.

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

These are the latest 10 lines of `helix.log`. Nothing looks relevant.

2022-04-24T11:49:36.554 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: modifers
2022-04-24T11:49:36.562 helix_view::editor [ERROR] Failed to initialize the LSP for `source.toml` { LSP not defined }
2022-04-24T11:50:09.881 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: modifers
2022-04-24T11:50:09.881 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: modifers
2022-04-24T11:50:09.905 helix_view::editor [ERROR] Failed to initialize the LSP for `source.toml` { LSP not defined }
2022-04-24T11:50:49.229 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: modifers
2022-04-24T11:50:49.230 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: modifers
2022-04-24T11:50:49.252 helix_view::editor [ERROR] Failed to initialize the LSP for `source.toml` { LSP not defined }
2022-04-24T11:58:26.687 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: modifers
2022-04-24T11:58:26.687 helix_view::theme [WARN] Theme: invalid style attribute: modifers

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

alacritty

Helix Version

22.03-127-g2c7f770a

[aral]

@n0s4 Just did exactly the same thing as you :)