Since I don't control the parameters to zathura myself (It is spawned by vimtex), I can't just do zathura $(realpath ...). \
I think it would be best to 'fix' this in the zathura repo.
I'm not farmiliar with the code though, so I'll just post a very simple patch I made here, and hope someone can comment on it.
follow-symlinks.patch
On GitLab by @toluschr on Apr 24, 2021, 17:40
Zathura has this neat feature, where it re-renders files when changed on disk. This does not work when the file is symlinked.
In this case, the file is linked to a fuse filesystem. My workdir looks like this:
Since I don't control the parameters to zathura myself (It is spawned by vimtex), I can't just do
zathura $(realpath ...)
. \ I think it would be best to 'fix' this in the zathura repo.I'm not farmiliar with the code though, so I'll just post a very simple patch I made here, and hope someone can comment on it. follow-symlinks.patch