Another implementation to resolve symbolic link paths, using :file instead of :edit.

• No autocmd-nested for performance.
• Clean buffer list without :bwipeout and moll/vim-bbye.
• An option b:symlink_should_resolve_path to exclude arbitrary paths.

Install with lazy.nvim:

{ "aileot/vim-symlink" }

Install with packer:

use({ "aileot/vim-symlink" })

Install with vim-plug:

Plug 'aileot/vim-symlink'

(default: 1)
A buffer-local option. If it is set to 0 or v:false (or set vim.b.symlink_should_resolve_path to false in nvim), path for the buffer will not be resolved. This option is expected to be set on BufReadPre.

Due to the :file redirection, you could get confused in some autocmd events:

• The values of autocmd-pattern, <amatch>, and <afile>, to a symbolic link would be either the symbolic link itself or its resolved path.

• The buffer names (by bufname(), or nvim_buf_get_name() in nvim) might be different from what you expect to the path as well.

Please consider applying resolve() to <amatch> or <afile> as needed.

Implementation on :file has been discussed in tpope/vim-fugitive#147.

• aymericbeaumet/vim-symlink