feature request: pasting path of files into an oil buffer

[sassanh]

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Describe the feature

It would be nice if oil.nvim could handle absolute file paths pasted into its buffers. In macOS when you copy a file in Finder, you can paste it in terminal and it will input its absolute path, if oil.nvim can copy the files upon writing the buffer, it will be possible to copy from Finder into oil.nvim.

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[stevearc]

To clarify: if you put an absolute path in an oil buffer and save, you want it to copy the file from the absolute path into the current buffer?

[sassanh]

To clarify: if you put an absolute path in an oil buffer and save, you want it to copy the file from the absolute path into the current buffer?

Yes

[sassanh]

For relative paths, I think it may increase the potential for errors. Users may be confused if they are addressing a relative path from current directory of oil.nvim, the cwd of Noevim or the directory of the last opened file, etc.

So we can give up on relative paths altogether or we can consider resolving them to absolute paths upon pasting so that users can see and confirm the resolved path before writing the buffer.