Error on `vimwiki convert` when an output directory is missing

[brennen]

With vimwiki-cli built from ccd3119. On first running convert, I was getting this:

21:56:36 brennen@inertia:~/notes (master *$%>) ✮ vimwiki convert ~/notes/vimwiki/index.wiki         
ERROR - Failed to load vimwiki_list from vim/neovim: invalid value: string "/home/brennen/notes/markdownwiki/html/", expected No such file or directory (os error 2)

Took me a minute to realize that it probably just wanted ~/notes/markdownwiki/html (as specified in config) to exist.

[chipsenkbeil]

@brennen, it's supposed to create that directory for you, but I think I have a check floating somewhere that tries to canonicalize the path when first being fed in and it's probably failing as you said. Let me see if I can check in a fix in a little bit.

Migrating some internal code over to https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/vimvar-rs

[chipsenkbeil]

@brennen, see if https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/vimwiki-rs/commit/5443ff17c8416d6534fa33d088db309667326f42 fixes the issue.

[brennen]

No longer fails if ~/notes/markdownwiki/html doesn't exist, but I'm also not sure if it's finding the config for that wiki. Can't get it to produce output for ~/notes/markdownwiki/index.md at all.

Edit: Config, for reference:

    " main personal wiki
    let wiki = {}
    let wiki.name = 'notes'
    let wiki.path = '~/notes/vimwiki/'
    let wiki.path_html = '~/workspace/notes-html/'
    let wiki.auto_tags = 1
    let wiki.auto_diary_index = 1
    let wiki.automatic_nested_syntaxes = 1

    " a markdown wiki for testing purposes
    let markdownwiki = {}
    let wiki.name = 'markdownwiki'
    let markdownwiki.path = '~/notes/markdownwiki'
    let markdownwiki.path_html = '~/notes/markdownwiki/html/'
    let markdownwiki.auto_tags = 1
    let markdownwiki.auto_diary_index = 1
    let markdownwiki.automatic_nested_syntaxes = 1
    let markdownwiki.syntax = 'markdown'
    let markdownwiki.ext = '.md'

    let g:vimwiki_list = [wiki, markdownwiki]

[chipsenkbeil]

@brennen, what do you see for vimwiki convert -vvvv at the beginning with regard to g:vimwiki_list? Should reflect what it has read there.

[brennen]

21:39:15 brennen@inertia:~/code/chipsenkbeil/vimwiki-rs (master=) ✾ vimwiki convert -vvvv
TRACE - load_html_config(path = None, include = [], merge = false, extra_paths = [])
TRACE - load_vimwiki_list()
TRACE - g:vimwiki_list == Some(Array([Object({"path_html": String("~/workspace/notes-html/"), "auto_tags": Number(1), "name": String("markdownwiki"), "automatic_nested_syntaxes": Number(1), "auto_diary_index": Number(1), "path": String("~/notes/vimwiki/")}), Object({"path_html": String("~/notes/markdownwiki/html/"), "auto_tags": Number(1), "path": String("~/notes/markdownwiki"), "ext": String(".md"), "automatic_nested_syntaxes": Number(1), "auto_diary_index": Number(1), "syntax": String("markdown")})]))
TRACE - load_ast(_, include = [], cache = "/home/brennen/.cache/vimwiki-cli", no_cache = false, no_prune_cache = false)
DEBUG - Loading wiki @ index = 0 | name = Some("markdownwiki") from "/home/brennen/notes/vimwiki"

[chipsenkbeil]

Oh, wait, I just realized that you said it's for markdown files. This doesn't support markdown files right now. Only vimwiki syntax.

[brennen]

Oh, wait, I just realized that you said it's for markdown files. This doesn't support markdown files right now. Only vimwiki syntax.

D'oh, yep. I didn't have any expectations that it would support Markdown, but I think I bounced into assuming it would do something here from the original error caused by the missing dir for that wiki without passing through the "that's markdown" segment of reality. Not at my sharpest this weekend.

[chipsenkbeil]

@brennen it should try to process as vimwiki if the extension is set to the files.

[chipsenkbeil]

Might be worth a separate issue if you're not seeing your wiki that has the extension set to markdown actually attempt to process the files.