Autowrite doesn't work for local sessions

[maskudo]

Contributing guidelines

• I have read CONTRIBUTING.md
• I have read CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• I have updated 'mini.nvim' to latest version of the main branch

Module(s)

mini.sessions

Neovim version

0.10.x

Description

Autowrite doesn't seem to work for local sessions. I tried:

• Initialize local session
• Open a bunch of buffers
• Write session
• Close neovim and again open a few buffers
• Reopen neovim and call the read function with the local session name
• Buffers from previous write are opened

I checked the code and the autowrite function seems to default to global session

    local autowrite = function()
      if H.get_this_session() ~= '' then MiniSessions.write(nil, { force = true }) end
    end

Reproduction

Default mini.nvim with

local file = "." .. vim.fn.fnamemodify(vim.fn.getcwd(), ":t") .. ".session.vim"

require("mini.sessions").setup({
  autowrite = true,
  file = file,
  dir = vim.fn.stdpath("state"),
  force = { read = true },
})

local session = require("mini.sessions")

local map = vim.keymap.set
map(
  "n",
  "<leader>qs",
  [[<cmd>lua =vim.v.this_session<cr>]],
  { desc = "Show Session" }
)
map("n", "<leader>ql", function()
  session.select()
end, { desc = "Select session" })
map("n", "<leader>qw", function()
  session.write(file)
end, { desc = "Write session" })

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("VimEnter", {
  group = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("mini-session", { clear = true }),
  callback = function()
    local info = vim.uv.fs_stat(vim.fn.getcwd() .. "/" .. file)
    if not info then
      session.write(file)
    end
  end,
})

and Snacks.dashboard with a section:

           {
            icon = " ",
            key = "s",
            action = function()
              local sessionFile = "."
                .. vim.fn.fnamemodify(vim.fn.getcwd(), ":t")
                .. ".session.vim"
              print(vim.inspect(sessionFile))
              vim.notify(sessionFile)
              require("mini.sessions").read(sessionFile)
            end,
            desc = "Restore Session",
            section = "session",
          }

[echasnovski]

Thanks for the issue!

Unfortunately, I can not reproduce. Autowriting works as expected with both global and local sessions.

• Initialize local session

• Open a bunch of buffers

• Write session

• Close neovim and again open a few buffers

• Reopen neovim and call the read function with the local session name

• Buffers from previous write are opened

I don't understand steps 4-5: is there a missing "open neovim" after the first "close neovim" step? What works is the following:

• Open buffer 1.
• Execute :lua MiniSessions.write('.cwd.session.vim') (replace cwd with the current directory name).
• Open buffer 2 (so that there are two buffers now).
• Close Neovim.
• Open Neovim.
• Execute :lua MiniSessions.read('.cwd.session.vim'). There are two buffers shown, because autowrite works as expected.
• It can be repeated: open buffer 3 (so that there are two buffers now); close Neovim, open Neovim, read the session, and see that there are three buffers now.

[maskudo]

Included a video showing the issue. The buffer count is in the bottom left corner in the statusline.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/883d2bc4-4625-4351-ad47-10df2bbf0545