can't open file with parentheses in path

[sadguitarius]

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Module(s)

mini.files

Description

I'm working through a Next.js tutorial and I found that when trying to access a file with parentheses in the path (a pattern used in Next.js) in mini.files, a blank buffer is shown. As far as I can tell, this may be the same as this and this. It's unclear to me if the issue was ever resolved in Neovim itself, but would this be something that could be dealt with on a case-by-case basis in mini.files?

Neovim version

0.10.1 (Windows)

Steps to reproduce

1. create a file nested in a directory with the path name enclosed in parentheses
2. try to open the file in mini.files

Expected behavior

A buffer should appear showing the contents of the file

Actual behavior

An empty buffer is shown

[echasnovski]

Thanks for the issue!

Have you tried playing with 'isfname' as suggested here?

The 'mini.files' modules already tries to handle special characters in file names by using fnameescape(). Judging by its help:

For most systems the characters escaped are
" \t\n*?[{`$\\%#'\"|!<".  For systems where a backslash
appears in a filename, it depends on the value of 'isfname'.

And here is an excerpt from 'isfname' help:

Note that on systems using a backslash as path separator, Vim tries to
do its best to make it work as you would expect.  That is a bit
tricky, since Vi originally used the backslash to escape special
characters.  Vim will not remove a backslash in front of a normal file
name character on these systems, but it will on Unix and alikes.  The
'&' and '^' are not included by default, because these are special for
cmd.exe.

As I understand it, the issue is that paths like "aaa(bbb)\ccc.jsx" are treated as "aaa(bbb)cc.jsx" due to using backslash as path separator.

Could you try adding ( and ) to 'isfname' and see if this fixes things for you? It can be done via :set isfname+=(,) interactively or vim.opt.isfname:append({ '(', ')' }) in Lua.

[sadguitarius]

Ha, that worked! I was having trouble figuring out how that solution would be implemented. Thanks!

[echasnovski]

Thanks for confirming! I don't have reliable access to Windows machine, so having this information is very useful.