Helix uses Windows settings under MSYS2

[go2null]

Summary

I installed helix from within MSYS2 and was very surprised that it behaves as if I had installed it natively in Windows

• it uses %APPDATA%\helix\config.toml instead of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/helix/config.toml.
  • This took me a while to figure out why config-reload was not working.
  • see related XDG support on windows #6747
• it uses %APPDATALOCAL%\helix\config.log instead of $XDG_CACHE_HOME/helix/helix.log.
• it uses CRLF instead of LF for default EOL.
  • :line-ending lf for each new file is kinda tedious.
  • see related Support config line ending in config.toml? #3945

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. 1helix`
2. :new
3. :write abc.rb

I expected this to happen:

• File with LF EOL be created

Instead, this happened:

• File with CRLF EOL be created

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

please provide a copy of `~/.cache/helix/helix.log` here if possible, you may need to redact some of the lines

Platform

MSYS2 MinGW UCRT x64

Terminal Emulator

mintty

Helix Version

helix 23.05 (39d0d85d)

[the-mikedavis]

I'm not familiar with MSYS2 or Windows very much but this seems like the right default behavior to me, no? My understanding is that MSYS2 is unix-like but still just Windows, so this would be covered by #6747 and #4378 together

[the-mikedavis]

#5621 (#4378 / #3945) has been merged so I think this is now covered just by #6747. I'll close in favor of that but if the default behavior here is not correct we can re-open this / open a new issue