Misplaced globalStorageHome

[ben-z]

A globalStorageHome directory is created in the project root when I use the VSCodeVim extension.

> tree globalStorageHome/
globalStorageHome/
└── vscodevim.vim

The VSCodeVim extension uses context.globalStoragePath to determine storage location. Did code-server misconfigure this location to be in the project root?

[code-asher]

Ah yeah I think I see the problem. vim runs in the browser and VS Code's worker extension host isn't capable of using the globalStorageHome value provided by the environment service yet, so we'll just have to patch that support in.

[zengming00]

This bug still exists when I deploy Code-Server on Linux and access it on Windows

$ code-server -v
3.5.0 de41646fc402b968ca6d555fdf2da7de9554d28a

[code-asher]

I spun up a 3.5.0 Docker image and when I use the vim extension and do something like :w it creates the global storage directory.

It doesn't seem to create it on startup though which is odd; I think it's supposed to do that so we might want to look into that. But it all seems to be working.

Are there any specific errors you're running into?

[zengming00]

If I access it on windows, the value of 'context.globalStoragePath' will be:
\home\admin\.local\share\code-server\globalStorage\vscodevim.vim
If I access it on linux, the value of 'context.globalStoragePath' will be:
/home/admin/.local/share/code-server/globalStorage/vscodevim.vim

The code-server always runs on linux, so when I access it with a windows browser, the path separator of 'context.globalStoragePath' is wrong

[code-asher]

Ahh I see! I opened a new issue for this: #2093