Windows (MinGW / Git Bash) looks for runtime in an unusual location

[tgross35]

Summary

On Windows (MinGW), Helix seems to look for the runtime directory in a binary directory (C:\Users\MyUser\.local\bin\runtime) rather than a configuration directory (C:\Users\MyUser\.config\helix\runtime), which doesn't seem to match up with the other operating systems.

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. hx --health

I expected this to happen: find runtime directory at ~/.config/helix/runtime

Instead, this happened:

Runtime directories: C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Roaming\helix\runtime;\\?\C:\Users\MyUser\.local\bin\runtime
Runtime directory does not exist: C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Roaming\helix\runtime
Runtime directory does not exist: \\?\C:\Users\MyUser\.local\bin\runtime

Helix log

Nothing relevant

Platform

Windows (MinGW)

Terminal Emulator

Git Bash

Helix Version

helix 23.05 (7f5940b)

[pascalkuthe]

C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Roaming\helix\runtime is the windows equivalent of ~/.config/helix on unix. Windows does usually not have a convention to place files in the home directory the way that Unix does (specifically they don't follow XDG). Somtimes these directories exist/are used anyway for programs with unix emulation. Adding that kind of behavior to helix additionally, see #6747

The second path is indeed where the binary is installed but that's on purpose and also the case on other operating systems..

Closing as this is the intended behavior and the only changes we would be willing to considers are already tracked in #6747.

[tgross35]

Thank you for the clarification on binary location, and for pointing me to the other issue!