drag & drop of files in WSL

[tfriedel]

If I use the wsl version of goneovim and I drag a file from windows explorer onto it, opening the file will fail. This is because the file path looks like C:\Users...

To open it, it would need to be converted to something like /mnt/C/Users

In wsl there's a tool for converting paths: wslpath 'C:\Users\yourusername\Documents\file.txt'

It would be great if this would be called before opening such a file.

[tfriedel]

I may have found a solution for this. I add this to my config:

-- Function to check if the environment is WSL
local function is_wsl()
  local handle = io.popen("grep -i microsoft /proc/version")
  local result = handle:read("*a")
  handle:close()
  return result ~= ""
end

-- Function to convert Windows path to WSL path and handle file opening
function OpenFile(path)
  local final_path = path
  if path:match("^%a:") then
    local handle = io.popen('wslpath -u "' .. path .. '"')
    final_path = handle:read("*a"):gsub("%s+", "")
    handle:close()
  end

  -- Prevent the creation of the extra buffer
  vim.cmd("bwipeout")

  -- Open the converted path
  vim.cmd("edit " .. final_path)

  -- Reapply filetype detection and syntax highlighting
  vim.cmd("doautocmd BufReadPost")
end

if is_wsl() then
  -- Autocommand to override default behavior when opening files
  vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "BufReadCmd" }, {
    pattern = "*",
    callback = function()
      OpenFile(vim.fn.expand("<afile>"))
    end,
    group = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("OverrideEdit", { clear = true }),
  })
endnd

[tfriedel]

actually, this seemed to work, but caused some issues. I'm afraid I'm out of ideas and think it must be fixed either in neovim or goneovim.