Better handling of symlinks (#2718)

- Add file-picker.follow-symlinks configuration option (default is true), this
  also controls if filename and directory completers follow symlinks.

- Update FilePicker to set editor error if opening a file fails, instead of
  panicing.

Fix #1548
Fix #2246

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/helix-view/src/editor.rs b/helix-view/src/editor.rs
index 8e53936a..3bc3ecb1 100644
--- a/helix-view/src/editor.rs
+++ b/helix-view/src/editor.rs
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ pub struct FilePickerConfig {
     /// Enables ignoring hidden files.
     /// Whether to hide hidden files in file picker and global search results. Defaults to true.
     pub hidden: bool,
+    /// Enables following symlinks.
+    /// Whether to follow symbolic links in file picker and file or directory completions. Defaults to true.
+    pub follow_symlinks: bool,
     /// Enables reading ignore files from parent directories. Defaults to true.
     pub parents: bool,
     /// Enables reading `.ignore` files.
@@ -94,6 +97,7 @@ impl Default for FilePickerConfig {
     fn default() -> Self {
         Self {
             hidden: true,
+            follow_symlinks: true,
             parents: true,
             ignore: true,
             git_ignore: true,