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Symlinked config files don't get picked up

#1

Hi,
I deploy all my config via Ansible and I want to do it for Sublime Text too.
But no matter if I symlink each config file to its place separately, or symlink the parent (User) folder. The config changes don’t get picked up by Sublime automatically. I need to manually restart Sublime for the changes to take affect. Even if I edit the settings file through Sublime, it won’t get picked up.

Is this a known issue? Or am I missing something? Is there a workaround?
Anyone else doploying his config like this and could give me a hint?

I have in mind that it didn’t even worked when I copied the files in place (not sure anymore, though) - but even if it worked, that isn’t satisfying since I needed to backport each config change to my ansible repo.

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#2

Are you working on a networked drive? Do you have any errors in the Sublime Text console?

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#3

There is no network drive/mount involved. Its all on my SSD.
Also no errors in the console.

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#4

Can you provide the full console output?

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#5

Here it is:

UI scale: 1.5 (gtk text scale)
startup, version: 4143 linux x64 channel: stable
executable: /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text
application: /opt/sublime_text
working dir: /home/myuser
packages path: /home/myuser/.config/sublime-text/Packages
state path: /home/myuser/.config/sublime-text/Local
zip path: /opt/sublime_text/Packages
zip path: /home/myuser/.config/sublime-text/Installed Packages
ignored_packages: ["Vintage"]
pre session restore time: 0.0845418
startup time: 0.13002
first paint time: 0.14135
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Package Control: Skipping automatic upgrade, last run at 2022-11-29 20:15:37, next run at 2022-11-29 21:15:37 or after

(Symlinked Preferences.sublime-settings from ~ with ln -s)

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#6

(Symlinked Preferences.sublime-settings from ~ with ln -s )

Ah, I’m pretty sure that won’t work. Only folders can be watched for changes, and thus it will only watch the symlink and not what it’s pointing to.

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#7

So you say I should instead of symlinking the files, rather just make the whole User folder a symlink?

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#8

Yes, that should work as expected.

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#9

It seems to work. I will keep an eye on it.
Weird, because I was absolutely sure I already tried that with no success.

Thank you!

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