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Symlinks are not displayed when the target does not exist #1339

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no-gravity opened this issue Jan 9, 2023 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #1416
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Symlinks are not displayed when the target does not exist #1339

no-gravity opened this issue Jan 9, 2023 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #1416

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Steps to Reproduce the Issue

ln -s b a
vim .

Current Behavior

a is not displayed

Expected Result

a is displayed as "a -> b"

Not displaying it creates a few issues:

One does not know which files exist in the current dir. That makes it hard to reason about the directory structure if there are symlinks for which the targets only exist in the production environment for example.

Creating a file that collides with the name of a symlink will unexpectedly create a file where the symlink points to. So creating "a" could create "/some/file/somewhere".

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