Feel-ix-343/markdown-oxide

References fail in hidden directories

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justinlovinger commented

Something is odd about how hidden directories are handled. There are three related issues I can identify. One may be a design choice. One may be an oddity. The last is definitely unintended.

First, create foo.md and .hidden/bar.md. [[bar]] in foo.md fails. However, I can understand ignoring hidden directories being a design-choice.

Second, create .hidden/foo.md and .hidden/bar.md. [[bar]] in .hidden/foo.md fails and [[foo]] in .hidden/bar.md fails. I find this odd, because they are both in the same directory. However, I can understand this being a strange edge-case because the directory is hidden.

Here is where it gets stranger. Create .hidden/foo.md and .hidden/bar.md. Change directory to .hidden. [[bar]] in foo.md fails and [[foo]] in bar.md fails. So, because the working directory is hidden, files cannot reference each other.

Feel-ix-343 commented

Hey! Thanks for reporting this and doing a bit of debugging on it!

  1. Oxide completely ignores hidden directories (when parsing files, we filter out all directories that start with a ".") and 2. root dir resolution is complicated.

I would say that links in hidden folders are unsupported for now, and I don't think this is something oxide should support for the future.