VimwikiMakeDiaryNote path issues on Windows

[derekthecool]

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• [X] Include the VimWiki settings from your .vimrc I'm using neovim so my configuration is in lua. Setup is very basic. There are no issues with this same config running Ubuntu 22.04, and Manjaro.

        -- Personal Wiki Setup
        local personal = {
            path = OS.home .. '/.mywiki/personal/',
            syntax = 'markdown',
            ext = '.md',
            auto_diary_index = 1,
            list_margin = 0,
        }

        -- Work Wiki Setup
        local work = {
            path = OS.home .. '/.mywiki/work/',
            syntax = 'markdown',
            ext = '.md',
            auto_diary_index = 1,
            list_margin = 0,
        }

        -- Apply the different Wiki's into the setup vimwiki_list
        vim.g.vimwiki_list = { personal, work }

        -- Allow automatic syntax check for code blocks
        vim.g.automatic_nested_syntaxes = 1

• [X] Include the syntax you are using (default / Markdown / MediaWiki) As shown in the config above, it is markdown.

• [X] Provide a detailed description of the problem including steps to reproduce the issue. There are two ways this fails.

  1. :VimwikiMakeDiaryNote And :VimwikiMakeDiaryNote 2 both create a new directory in my wiki root with the path diary\2023-03-22.md.

  I would expect the first command (without any number arg) to use my first diary named personal and create diary note at the path personal\diary. Then I would have expected the second command that uses the number 2 to create a diary entry in the directory work\diary.

  2. The second failure I see is when using the index number 1 with the command VimwikiMakeDiaryNote 1. This one is the most messed up and creates the diary file in my home directory ~\vimwiki\diary\2023-03-22.wiki creating a new directory with a seemingly default name of vimwiki and another item of notice is that it uses the .wiki extension instead of the .md I from my settings.

From looking through the code it seems this function vimwiki#vars#get_wikilocal might be the function that is getting the path incorrectly. However, I'm such a vimscript noob that I can't even find where this function is defined. I see it is referenced in 24 different files. Can anyone share where that function is defined?

I would love to help create a fix for this, but need a nudge in the right direction.

• [X] Include the output of :VimwikiShowVersion.

  Version: 2022.12.02
  Os: Windows
  Vim: 801
  Branch: HEAD
  Revision: 72d0220
  Date: 2023-03-18 01:50:53 -0300

[tinmarino]

Hi @derekthecool,

I cannot reproduce on Linux, will have a look on Windows.

The vimwiki#vars#get_wikilocal is defined in autoload/vimwiki/vars.vim.

You can troubleshoot the interesting (wiki local) variable (path) running the command :VimwikiVar path.

[tinmarino]

Do you set the configuration variable before loading vimwiki? It seems that your configuration is the default one (~/vimwiki), so vimwiki may not have taken into account your config at loading, which is expected if you configure it too late.

Try putting it at the top of your vimrc