Cannot find existing markdown files outside inbox

[LA-Toth]

While I worked on issue #70, I tried to figure out why it can't find the existing markdown file with or without my changes.

The obsidian-find-file tries to match the file from all-files coming from the cache, but fails on this line:

  (matches (obsidian--match-files f all-files))

And that was the strangely working function:

(defun obsidian--file-relative-name (f)
  "Take file name F and return relative path for `obsidian-directory'."
  (message "f   %s" f)
  (message "od  %s" obsidian-directory)
  (message "frn %s" (file-relative-name f obsidian-directory))
  (file-relative-name f obsidian-directory))

What I expected is to have a generic idea what should be shown for the actually matching file, but strangely it thinks that the file is in the inbox folder. Visiting a wiki link the code iterates on all files, so for instance the moc.md in the MY_OBSIDIAN_FOLDER produces:

f   moc.md
od  /home/user/MY_OBSIDIAN_FOLDER
frn 000 Inbox/moc.md

The reason behind that is the behavior of file-relative-name. If the first parameter, f is a relative path, like in my case, it prefixes with the current directory (based on my reproduction in **scratch** buffer), so if the current directory is the inbox, the actual filename will be /home/user/MY_OBSIDIAN_FOLDER/000 Inbox/moc.md instead of /home/user/MY_OBSIDIAN_FOLDER/moc.md, this is why the result is useless. And obviously if the file is already in the inbox, like, e.g. 000 Inbox/my-idea.md, the result is 000 Inbox/000 Inbox/moc.md.

So this function should not be called here.

[LA-Toth]

Oh, now I see. When I first tried obsidian.el, it worked for me. Fixing Issue #64 broke this. When I reverted commit 3fbd5dc, obsidian.el started to work again.

[jayemar]

I'm running into this issue, too. I just made a comment on the pull request that introduced that code to reference this issue.

[mastro35]

Sorry if I answer just now, I had a difficult week actually…
The problem here seems to be the function obsidian--file-relative-name, don’t it?

I mean, it was incidental that was working before I fixed #64, it worked just because the obsidian--match-files was extracting way more files than it was necessary (all the files ending with a given parameter) and not just the files matching the filename as the function name suggests.

I’ll try to help finding a solution, can you please send me an example of the bug you are experiencing? I mean, if you could create a test vault where the problem occurs it will be great.

[LA-Toth]

I'm not sure if obsidian--file-relative-name itself behaves abnormally.
obsidian--file-relative-name calls this function since your change, unfortunately with relative path, so the called obsidian--file-relative-name assumes that the filename is relative to the current working directory.

The original code was:

(-filter (lambda (el) (s-ends-with-p f el)) all-files))

It should become something like:

(-filter (lambda (el) (or (s-equals-p f el) (s-ends-with-p (concat "/" f) el))) all-files))

So either there is an actual match or one or more that ends with the actual file name.
Like in #64, in case of aaa.md and not-the-aaa.md, and the link [[aaa]], it finds only the aaa.md.

My use case:
have a foo/bar.md and foo/baz.md and in foo/bar.md there is [[baz]].
Normally it opens foo/baz.md, but since #64 it opens inbox/baz.md.

[mastro35]

I keep not understanding why you think it is correct that obsidian--file-relative-name assumes that the filename is relative to the current working directory if you have it in your obsidian vault...

However, your solution seems fine to me, go ahead and create a pull request.

[LA-Toth]

I keep not understanding why you think it is correct that obsidian--file-relative-name assumes that the filename is relative to the current working directory if you have it in your obsidian vault...

I just wrote that if it is not called from obsidian--match-files, it may work well, I can't tell because I didn't check its other calls.

[gleitz]

I agree that this PR needs to be merged. More info at #73 (comment)

[LA-Toth]

I think this can be closed as it's fixed.