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Script","funding_links":[],"categories":[],"sub_categories":[],"readme":"# vim-symlink\n\nAnother implementation to resolve symbolic link paths,\nusing `:file` instead of `:edit`.\n\n## Features\n\n- No `autocmd-nested` for **performance**.\n- **Clean** buffer list without `:bwipeout`\n  and [moll/vim-bbye](https://github.com/moll/vim-bbye).\n- An option\n  [`b:symlink_should_resolve_path`](#bsymlink_should_resolve_path)\n  to **exclude** arbitrary paths.\n\n## Install\n\nInstall with [lazy.nvim](https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim):\n\n```lua\n{ \"aileot/vim-symlink\" }\n```\n\nInstall with [packer](https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim):\n\n```lua\nuse({ \"aileot/vim-symlink\" })\n```\n\nInstall with [vim-plug](https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug):\n\n```vim\nPlug 'aileot/vim-symlink'\n```\n\n## Options\n\n### `b:symlink_should_resolve_path`\n\n_(default: `1`)_\\\nA buffer-local option.\nIf it is set to `0` or `v:false`\n(or set `vim.b.symlink_should_resolve_path` to `false` in 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