update_focused_file not working when path contains spaces

[Šimon Mandlík]

OS
macOS 12.1

Neovim version
NVIM v0.6.1
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
Compiled by brew@Monterey

Nvim-tree version
nvim-tree branch, commmit or tag number
master

Describe the bug
When the path contains spaces, e.g.:

~/With Space
└── test.txt

the file focusing is not working for me

nvim-tree config:

local g = vim.g

g.nvim_tree_quit_on_open = 1 -- closes the tree when you open a file
g.nvim_tree_indent_markers = 1 -- shows indent markers when folders are open
g.nvim_tree_add_trailing = 1 -- append a trailing slash to folder names
g.nvim_tree_group_empty = 1 -- compact folders that only contain a single folder into one node
g.nvim_tree_special_files = {} -- List of filenames that gets highlighted with NvimTreeSpecialFile

require'nvim-tree'.setup {
    view = {
        width = 40,
        mappings = {
            custom_only = true, -- only mappings specified above
            list = NVIM_TREE_MAPPINGS
        }
    },
    auto_close = true,
    update_cwd = true,
    diagnostics = {
        enable = true,
    },
    update_focused_file = {
        enable = true,
        update_cwd = false,
    },
}

[Kiyan]

cannot reproduce, is this still relevant ?

[Šimon Mandlík]

Looks to be caused by this nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim#1662

[Kiyan]

i don't use plenary, is this issue actually happening with nvim-tree ? update_focused_file works fine for me in files with spaces.

[Kiyan]

Or maybe you are working with macos, so the issue is with uppercase in your foldernames (macos doesn't distinguish uppercase and lowercase in its filesystem...)

[Šimon Mandlík]

The difference is that when I open the file with telescope :echo expand('%') returns /Users/simon.mandlik//With space/with space.txt whereas when opened from nvim-tree it returns /Users/simon.mandlik/With space/with space.txt

[Kiyan]

Is the isue with the additional / ? i don't see any difference otherwise, and i don't understand why it is a nvim-tree issue ?

[Šimon Mandlík]

No, I will close this as this problem is resolved once the issue linked above is.

I have narrowed this down to the following:

The following buffer works:

:ls
  1 %a   "~/With space/with space.txt"  line 1

whereas the following doesn't:

:ls
  1 %a   "~//With space/with space.txt" line 1

The weird path in the second case is caused by nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim#1662, but as far as I know it is still a valid unix path.

[Kiyan]

thanks for the clarification :)