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Unknown file open flag 'rs+' on windows

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua, neovim
Domain
operating-systems, tooling

Research direction

Start at lua/dashboard/events.lua:27, the location named in the Windows error. Reproduce by opening a session, editing a file, and quitting Neovim on Windows; done means exiting completes without the unknown file open flag error.

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Description

Describe the bug
I'm getting the error Error executing lua callback: ...l/nvim-data/lazy/dashboard-nvim/lua/dashboard/events.lua:27: Unknown file open flag 'rs+' during exit.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Open session on windows
  2. Edit some file
  3. Quit nvim
  4. See error

Expected behavior
Exiting works without error.

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Lua
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