Error when loading dirvish (Expected buffer name) about vim-dirvish HOT 4 CLOSED

@joshaw Thanks for the report, I've noticed some quirks on Windows too, though it's been solid for several months. I have been waiting until I migrate to non-dictionary functions in the plugin source, to make step-by-step debugging possible. I'll take this as motivation to do that now.

My vimrc is in a folder called vimfiles, which itself is a symlink

By symlink to you mean a windows junction (?) created by mklink?

.vim/ folder (so I can use the same folder for Windows/Cygwin/Linux.

I used to do that too, now I just do this:

  if has('vim_starting') && s:is_windows
    set runtimepath+=~/.vim/
  endif

No need for symlinks now, _vimfiles/ is just a bad memory.

Glad you like the plugin!

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I did use mklink but the documentation says

MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target
        /D      Creates a directory symbolic link.  Default is a file symbolic link.
        /J      Creates a Directory Junction.

and I used /D without /J, so not entirely sure what I've created.

No need for symlinks now

I have tried that in the past, but I like to keep my vimrc and nvimrc files inside the .vim folder to make version control easier, so there'd need to be symlinks somewhere, either between files, or folders.

I've been playing around with making my own directory browser (simply because. Also I enjoy stripping plugins back to the absolute basics while still being functional) navd (for want of a better name) which is implemented very naively, but I haven't yet run into any issues, it seems to "just work". I don't know why dirvish might have problems where I didn't, but thought it worth pointing out.

Cheers.

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It seems the latest commits (one of the two most recent ones) made dirvish fail with this error when opening any folder.
I've currently frozen the plugin at the revision ae206266555ff3e81db9f45fa54dbcb3a1a07a49, the latest version that doesn't trigger this bug.

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Thanks, I noticed it too on some systems. Though windows gvim works perfectly now.

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