Canonicalize paths before stripping current dir as prefix (#6290)

Co-authored-by: jazzfool <shamoslover69@gmail.com>

Cargo.lock

@@ -1082,6 +1082,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "arc-swap",
  "bitflags 2.0.2",
  "chrono",
+ "dunce",
  "encoding_rs",
  "etcetera",
  "hashbrown 0.13.2",

helix-core/Cargo.toml

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ regex = "1"
 bitflags = "2.0"
 ahash = "0.8.3"
 hashbrown = { version = "0.13.2", features = ["raw"] }
+dunce = "1.0"
 
 log = "0.4"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }

helix-core/src/path.rs

@@ -40,6 +40,21 @@ pub fn expand_tilde(path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
 /// needs to improve on.
 /// Copied from cargo: <https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/070e459c2d8b79c5b2ac5218064e7603329c92ae/crates/cargo-util/src/paths.rs#L81>
 pub fn get_normalized_path(path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
+    // normalization strategy is to canonicalize first ancestor path that exists (i.e., canonicalize as much as possible),
+    // then run handrolled normalization on the non-existent remainder
+    let (base, path) = path
+        .ancestors()
+        .find_map(|base| {
+            let canonicalized_base = dunce::canonicalize(base).ok()?;
+            let remainder = path.strip_prefix(base).ok()?.into();
+            Some((canonicalized_base, remainder))
+        })
+        .unwrap_or_else(|| (PathBuf::new(), PathBuf::from(path)));
+
+    if path.as_os_str().is_empty() {
+        return base;
+    }
+
     let mut components = path.components().peekable();
     let mut ret = if let Some(c @ Component::Prefix(..)) = components.peek().cloned() {
         components.next();
@@ -63,7 +78,7 @@ pub fn get_normalized_path(path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
             }
         }
     }
-    ret
+    base.join(ret)
 }
 
 /// Returns the canonical, absolute form of a path with all intermediate components normalized.
@@ -82,13 +97,19 @@ pub fn get_canonicalized_path(path: &Path) -> std::io::Result<PathBuf> {
 }
 
 pub fn get_relative_path(path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
+    let path = PathBuf::from(path);
     let path = if path.is_absolute() {
-        let cwdir = std::env::current_dir().expect("couldn't determine current directory");
-        path.strip_prefix(cwdir).unwrap_or(path)
+        let cwdir = std::env::current_dir()
+            .map(|path| get_normalized_path(&path))
+            .expect("couldn't determine current directory");
+        get_normalized_path(&path)
+            .strip_prefix(cwdir)
+            .map(PathBuf::from)
+            .unwrap_or(path)
     } else {
         path
     };
-    fold_home_dir(path)
+    fold_home_dir(&path)
 }
 
 /// Returns a truncated filepath where the basepart of the path is reduced to the first

helix-term/tests/integration.rs

@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 mod test {
     mod helpers;
 
-    use std::path::PathBuf;
-
     use helix_core::{syntax::AutoPairConfig, Selection};
     use helix_term::config::Config;
 

helix-term/tests/test/commands/write.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use std::{
     ops::RangeInclusive,
 };
 
-use helix_core::diagnostic::Severity;
+use helix_core::{diagnostic::Severity, path::get_normalized_path};
 use helix_view::doc;
 
 use super::*;
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ async fn test_write_quit_fail() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
             assert_eq!(1, docs.len());
 
             let doc = docs.pop().unwrap();
-            assert_eq!(Some(file.path()), doc.path().map(PathBuf::as_path));
+            assert_eq!(Some(&get_normalized_path(file.path())), doc.path());
             assert_eq!(&Severity::Error, app.editor.get_status().unwrap().1);
         }),
         false,
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ async fn test_write_scratch_to_new_path() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
             assert_eq!(1, docs.len());
 
             let doc = docs.pop().unwrap();
-            assert_eq!(Some(&file.path().to_path_buf()), doc.path());
+            assert_eq!(Some(&get_normalized_path(file.path())), doc.path());
         }),
         false,
     )
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ async fn test_write_new_path() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
                 Some(&|app| {
                     let doc = doc!(app.editor);
                     assert!(!app.editor.is_err());
-                    assert_eq!(file1.path(), doc.path().unwrap());
+                    assert_eq!(&get_normalized_path(file1.path()), doc.path().unwrap());
                 }),
             ),
             (
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ async fn test_write_new_path() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
                 Some(&|app| {
                     let doc = doc!(app.editor);
                     assert!(!app.editor.is_err());
-                    assert_eq!(file2.path(), doc.path().unwrap());
+                    assert_eq!(&get_normalized_path(file2.path()), doc.path().unwrap());
                     assert!(app.editor.document_by_path(file1.path()).is_none());
                 }),
             ),

helix-term/tests/test/splits.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 use super::*;
 
+use helix_core::path::get_normalized_path;
+
 #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread")]
 async fn test_split_write_quit_all() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let mut file1 = tempfile::NamedTempFile::new()?;
@@ -25,21 +27,21 @@ async fn test_split_write_quit_all() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 
                     let doc1 = docs
                         .iter()
-                        .find(|doc| doc.path().unwrap() == file1.path())
+                        .find(|doc| doc.path().unwrap() == &get_normalized_path(file1.path()))
                         .unwrap();
 
                     assert_eq!("hello1", doc1.text().to_string());
 
                     let doc2 = docs
                         .iter()
-                        .find(|doc| doc.path().unwrap() == file2.path())
+                        .find(|doc| doc.path().unwrap() == &get_normalized_path(file2.path()))
                         .unwrap();
 
                     assert_eq!("hello2", doc2.text().to_string());
 
                     let doc3 = docs
                         .iter()
-                        .find(|doc| doc.path().unwrap() == file3.path())
+                        .find(|doc| doc.path().unwrap() == &get_normalized_path(file3.path()))
                         .unwrap();
 
                     assert_eq!("hello3", doc3.text().to_string());