How to prevent oil to edit nvim argv values ?

[Kazppa]

Sorry for this issue but I didn't find any existing one on this subject.

It seems oil.nvim is messing with the command line arguments and ends up editing vim.fn.argv values, replacing paths with something like "oil:///..." when I initially called "nvim ." from my terminal.

Is there a way to prevent this or to retrieve the actual arguments passed to the command line ?
This is messing with other plugins trying to parse the command line arguments.

[stevearc]

This is a fun Neovim bug. Try this

-- Save this as foo.lua
-- nvim foo.lua
-- :source
vim.api.nvim_buf_set_name(0, "bar.lua")
print(vim.inspect(vim.fn.argv()))

Renaming the buffer also changes the names of the args. Unfortunately we have to rename the buffer because oil relies on the fact that all oil buffers have a standard name format. You could try reporting this upstream; there's nothing we can do here.

[Kazppa]

Is there a magic function in oil to convert an oil name format to a normal file path ?

[stevearc]

You can use require("oil.util").parse_url(bufname). It will return the scheme + the path. Under the hood it's just doing a pattern match, which you could also take and do yourself

oil.nvim/lua/oil/util.lua

Lines 16 to 18 in 7cde5aa

	M.parse_url = function(url)
	return url:match("^(.*://)(.*)$")
	end