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Duplicated Most Recent Files with different file separators

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Assessment

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

Research direction

Reproduce the issue on Windows 10 by opening the dashboard and inspecting the “Most Recent Files” section, then trace how recent file paths are collected and compared. Done means the same file is shown only once when paths use different separators, while the existing behavior remains unaffected on macOS.

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Description

20240108031930

The screenshot and title say it all.

There are some duplicated records in the "Most Recent Files" section with just different file path separators. But the duplicated records are targeting the same file.

Currently it can be reproduced every time when I open the dashboard.

The PC to reproduce the issue is Win10 OS, but it is totally fine on my MacBook Air M1, I also tried the alpha.nvim on the same PC and it is fine too.

Dominant language
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