ow doesn't work on symlinks

[muellerto]

Describe the bug ow on a symlink doesn't bring a list of applications usable for this file type. The list remains empty.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. have a symlink on a file so that the symlink looks exactly like the file itself (same extension)
2. execute ow on that symlink

Expected behavior I would expect that clifm acts on a symlink like on any other file.

Screenshots

ow on number 11 brings nothing. ow on number 12 which is just a copy of the file behind number 11 works as expected. clifm makes a difference which is not needed.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 11 Pro
• Terminal: Hyper 3.4.1
• CliFM version: 1.19.3
• Installation source: Git from today

[leo-arch]

Hi @muellerto, and thanks for reporting. It should be solved now.

[muellerto]

Not sure. On Linux it seemed somehow to work. On Windows it looks like that:

Interesting are here several things:

• sure I have MIME bindings for text files, for a .toml file like number 7 I should get seven text editors listed
• number 10 is an ordinary .js file, not a symlink, but does also list nothing
• but suddenly number 8 which is a symlink lists text editors

I don't see any system behind. Why don't all the links work like number 8?

[leo-arch]

Could you run mm info on those files refusing to work with ow? Does it inform some opening app? And, what is the informed MIME type?

Testing on my Windows box; cannot reproduce the issue yet.

[muellerto]

It's as follows:

• the files 7, 9 and 10 show a mime type but no associated application
• the files 8, 11 and 12 have different mime types but are all associated with vim

This explains the difference between number 8 (ow lists applications) and number 10 (ow lists nothing).

A question is why .js files seem to have no associations at all. The according rule is:

#-----------------------------
# Text
#-----------------------------

X:^text/rtf$=libreoffice;soffice;ooffice
X:(^text/.*|application/json|inode/x-empty)=$EDITOR;$VISUAL;kak;dte;vim;vi;nvim;gvim;micro;mg;emacs;notepad;ed;nano;mili;leafpad;mousepad;featherpad;nedit;kate;gedit;pluma;io.elementary.code;liri-text;xed;atom;nota;gobby;kwrite;xedit
!X:(^text/.*|application/json|inode/x-empty)=$EDITOR;$VISUAL;kak;dte;vim;vi;nvim;micro;mg;emacs;notepad;ed;nano

Ahhh, I read elsewhere that application/javascript is an own mime type, so .js files are not matched by text/.*. OK, I can add this in these lines. With that change it looks as it should:

Thanks a lot for reading :)

[leo-arch]

Great!

I guess I'll modify the default mimelist.clifm file to include application/javascript as plain text:

X:(^text/.*|application/(json|javascript)|inode/x-empty)=...
!X:(^text/.*|application/(json|javascript)|inode/x-empty)=...