Load last project on start?

[Praful]

Thank you for providing this excellent plugin. I like that the current state can be saved on quit. How can I have this last project automatically restored when yazi starts?

I know I can type P,P but wanted it to be done automatically since I always do that.

[MasouShizuka]

Could you try the new config load_after_start?

[Praful]

@MasouShizuka ありがとう (I'm learning Japanese but it's very basic!)

I've updated the plugin (with ya pack -u) and can see the new code but this is not working. When I start yazi, the last project is not restored. PP still restores correctly.

I'm using the latest Linux Mint. Is there some debugging I can do?

My init.lua code for projects.yazi:

require("projects"):setup({
    save = {
        method = "yazi", -- yazi | lua
        lua_save_path = "", -- windows: "%APPDATA%/yazi/state/projects.json", unix: "~/.config/yazi/state/projects.json"
    },
    last = {
        update_after_save = true,
        update_after_load = true,
        load_after_start = true,
    },
    merge = {
        quit_after_merge = false,
    },
    notify = {
        enable = true,
        title = "Projects",
        timeout = 2,
        level = "info",
    },
})

[MasouShizuka]

I tested it and may have found the problem.

There is a certain delay when the yazi API reads the .dds content (i.e. the saved projects) at startup.
You can try to execute load_last immediately after startup, but the recovery fails because it has not been read successfully.
After a certain period of time, executing load_last will succeed because the reading has been completed.

Since the current implementation tries to read and restore immediately after loading the plugin, it does not succeed.
And I currently have no way of knowing when yazi will finish reading .dds, so I can't complete the automatic loading in a delayed manner.

You can try again with the lua save method.

[Praful]

I changed to the following:

require("projects"):setup({
    save = {
        method = "lua", -- yazi | lua

But this doesn't save or restore the project!

This is hacky, but what about adding a short delay, say, 1 sec? I say this because the yazi UI is ready within a second and I immediately press PPand the project is restored.

[MasouShizuka]

After you switch to lua method, could you find projects.json, by default it should be in ~/.local/state/yazi/projects.json (after update).

[MasouShizuka]

By the way, please do not leave lua_save_path empty, either specify the path of projects.json, or comment it out to use the default path.

[MasouShizuka]

This is hacky, but what about adding a short delay, say, 1 sec? I say this because the yazi UI is ready within a second and I immediately press PPand the project is restored.

This implementation is unreliable.
Yazi reads dds asynchronously (i.e. ps.sub_remote), which means that even if you set a 1s delay time for reading, autoload may still not be possible in the case of poor performance.

[Praful]

I've removed the empty lua_save_path line and switched to the lua method and all is working now: the project loads on yazi startup!

projects.json has the correct information on quit.

When I switched back to the yazi save method, nothing was loaded on startup. 'PP' loaded a different project from the one I saved when using the lua method. I assume the yazi method is saving the project elsewhere?

Thanks for providing this feature!

[MasouShizuka]

Yes, Yazi saves it in a .dds file, by default it should be ~/.local/state/yazi/.dds.