file browser treats symlink folders as files so that you cannot jump to them

[66RING]

Description

file_browser cannot jump into symlink folders

Details

Reproduce

1. create a symlink folder 2. `:Telescope file_browser` to jump 3. and it just open symlink folder as a file

Environment

- nvim --version output: ``` NVIM v0.5.0-dev+nightly-98-g0ab88c2ea Build type: RelWithDebInfo LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3 Compilation: /usr/bin/cc -O2 -g -Og -g -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wshadow -Wconversion -Wmissing-prototypes -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wvla -fstack-protector-strong -fno-common -fdiagnostics-color=always -DINCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNVIM_MSGPACK_HAS_FLOAT32 -DNVIM_UNIBI_HAS_VAR_FROM -DMIN_LOG_LEVEL=3 -I/home/ring/var/neovim/build/config -I/home/ring/var/neovim/src -I/home/ring/var/neovim/.deps/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/home/ring/var/neovim/build/src/nvim/auto -I/home/ring/var/neovim/build/include Compiled by root@laptop Features: +acl +iconv +tui See ":help feature-compile" system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim" fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/local/share/nvim" Run :checkhealth for more info ``` - Operating system: `5.11.10-arch1-1` - Telescope commit: a7fa60411efbfddc0674d65346a5311e33f6deb1

Configuration

```viml set nocompatible hidden laststatus=2 if !filereadable('/tmp/plug.vim') silent !curl --insecure -fLo /tmp/plug.vim \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim endif source /tmp/plug.vim call plug#begin('/tmp/plugged') Plug 'nvim-lua/popup.nvim' Plug 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim' Plug 'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim' call plug#end() autocmd VimEnter * PlugClean! | PlugUpdate --sync | close lua << EOF require('telescope').setup { defaults = { prompt_prefix = '🚀 ', prompt_position = 'top', sorting_strategy = 'ascending', file_previewer = require'telescope.previewers'.vim_buffer_cat.new, grep_previewer = require'telescope.previewers'.vim_buffer_vimgrep.new, qflist_previewer = require'telescope.previewers'.vim_buffer_qflist.new, mappings = { i = { [""] = require('telescope.actions').close, } } }, extensions = { fzy_native = { override_generic_sorter = false, override_file_sorter = true, } } } require('telescope').load_extension('fzy_native') EOF ```

[Conni2461]

We also noticed this: fix is in #613 Still thanks for reporting :)

[alexeygumirov]

Hi! I have this issue, which causes me to use Lf as a backup solution instead of Telescope File Browser.

[Conni2461]

file_browser is no longer part of telescope. Closing. If this is still an Issue in the new extension: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope-file-browser.nvim please open an issue there