Helix does not respect configured roaming profile location on Windows.

[Themayu]

Summary

Windows allows a user to change the location of their roaming profile folder (%AppData%) on the installation. This allows it to be moved if the profile is on a small disk, for example, or if they wish to store it on a network drive. However, Helix appears to have hardcoded the assumption that the folder will always be located at ~\AppData\Roaming, which is an incorrect assumption.

Reproduction Steps

1. Find your AppData\Roaming folder on Windows
2. Right-click on the folder, and click Properties. Go to Location and click Move, then select a new location.
3. Type %AppData% into Windows Explorer to confirm that the Roaming folder is no longer located in %UserProfile%\AppData
4. From a new terminal window, open hx and execute :config-open

Helix should open the configuration file at %AppData%\helix\config.toml.

Instead, Helix has hardcoded the location of the user's roaming profile as ~\AppData\Roaming, which is incorrect. This leads to it attempting to open %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\helix\config.toml as though the roaming profile location was left unchanged.

Helix log

The log file does not contain any applicable statements, but it has been provided in full anyway.

%LocalAppData%\helix\helix.log

   1   │ 2023-05-19T19:37:44.756 helix_vcs [ERROR] Error {
   2   │     context: "failed to open git repo",
   3   │     source: Discover(
   4   │         NoGitRepository {
   5   │             path: "C:\\Users\\***\\AppData\\Roaming\\helix",
   6   │         },
   7   │     ),
   8   │ }
   9   │ 2023-05-19T19:37:44.757 helix_vcs [ERROR] failed to open diff base for C:\Users\***\AppData\Roaming\helix\config.toml
  10   │ 2023-05-19T19:37:44.758 helix_vcs [ERROR] Error {
  11   │     context: "failed to open git repo",
  12   │     source: Discover(
  13   │         NoGitRepository {
  14   │             path: "C:\\Users\\***\\AppData\\Roaming\\helix",
  15   │         },
  16   │     ),
  17   │ }
  18   │ 2023-05-19T19:37:44.758 helix_vcs [ERROR] failed to obtain current head name for C:\Users\***\AppData\Roaming\helix\config.toml
  19   │ 2023-05-19T19:37:44.793 helix_view::editor [ERROR] Failed to initialize the LSP for `source.toml` { cannot find binary path }

Platform

Windows

Terminal Emulator

N/A

Helix Version

helix 23.03 (3cf0372)

[kirawi]

Ah, you should actually upgrade your Helix version to 23.05. This was fixed in etcetera 0.8.

[Themayu]

winget update --id Helix.Helix currently says that there is no applicable update for the package. winget search Helix.Helix says that the latest version is 23.03.

[kirawi]

You'll have to wait until they update. On the other hand, I'd suggest checking the binary at https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases/tag/23.05 to see if it fixes this issue.

[Themayu]

The issue is fixed on Helix 23.05.